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Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 20:54:31 +0100
From: Stuart Mackie <mackie@droog.sdf-eu.org>
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Subject: Re: Remote backups using ssh and dump
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>Has anyone done this?

>I'm presently using rsync over ssh, but I think dump would be better if it will 
>work.  I've been reading the man page, but I'm wondering if anyone is doing 
>this successfully and would like to share their cmdline.

Hi,

[ from gopher://sdf-eu.org/00/users/mackie/Unix-Notes/_sdf-user-stuff.txt ]

Backup home dir (from sdf)
--------------------------
$ ssh mackie@droog.sdf-eu.org 'tar cvf - html/* | gzip - > html.tgz'
$ ssh mackie@droog.sdf-eu.org 'tar cvf - gopher/* | gzip - > gopher.tgz'
$ rsync -avz -e ssh mackie@droog.sdf-eu.org:/arpa/m/mackie /home/mackie/SDF

Backup home dir (to sdf)
------------------------
(dump)
# dump -0f - /home | ssh -o 'EscapeChar none' mackie@droog.sdf-eu.org "cat > home.fs"

(restore)
# cd /home && rcp mackie@droog.sdf-eu.org:home.fs home.fs && cat home.fs | restore -rf -


HTH,

Stuart
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