Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:18:25 +0100 From: Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Remote backups using ssh and dump Message-ID: <47F78A31.6020404@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4E73E577666CE823A7212C54@utd65257.utdallas.edu> References: <4E73E577666CE823A7212C54@utd65257.utdallas.edu>
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Paul Schmehl wrote: > 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. > We do this for ~100 linux (centos) systems at work. we looked at a variety of other systems (rsync, rdiffbackup, tar, dar) and settled on dump because of the ease of baremetal restore, support of file system attributes, ease of compression etc. It all runs via the crontab of the backup user on the backup server, uses a passphraseless ssh key to a backup user on each server who has passwordless sudo on dump. If you like I can dig out the script although it will probably need modifying for freebsd. Vince
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