Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 01:04:36 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> Cc: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dump and ssh Message-ID: <20010218010436.H62368@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102180259120.90407-100000@cody.jharris.com>; from nick@rogness.net on Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 03:03:15AM -0600 References: <20010218001714.E62368@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102180259120.90407-100000@cody.jharris.com>
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On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 03:03:15AM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Crist J. Clark wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:03:18AM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> > >
> > > My original plan had been to nfs mount the raid partition in the case of a
> > > need to restore, but for some reason the linux can't nfs mount the freebsd
> > > system (I think the kernel version is too old).
> > >
> > > So then, my question becomes, what would be the syntax to pull a file from
> > > a remote host via ssh, using restore(8)?
> >
> > # ssh -luser remotehost "cat dump_file.dmp" | restore -[irRtx]f -
>
> That will actually restore your dump on the machine you are
> restoring from. If you just want to grap the already dumped file
> and not restore:
>
> # ssh remotehost 'cat dump_file' | cat - > local_dump_file
^^^^^^^
Why the gratuitous cat(1)?
# ssh remotehost 'cat dump_file' > local_dump_file
> or
>
> # ssh remotehost 'dump 0af - / ' |cat - > local_dump_file
^^^^^^
# ssh remotehost 'dump 0af - / ' > local_dump_file
The original poster was already piping dumps through SSH.
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu
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