Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:17:26 -0600 From: "Mike Loiterman" <mike@ascendency.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Help backing up to networked drive Message-ID: <00a901c61d13$d9251cb0$0401a8c0@Mike8500>
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Mike Loiterman <mailto:mike@ascendency.net> wrote: > I would like to backup my server to a firewire drive > connected to a Macintosh Mini. Both machines are on my local > network and, of course, behind a secure firewall. > > Right now I'm using this script to take backups: > > #!/bin/sh > > /sbin/dump -0uanL -f - / | gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish > mike@192.168.1.11 dd of=/Volumes/Server-Backup/dump-root.gz && \ > /sbin/dump -0uanL -f - /tmp | gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish > mike@192.168.1.11 dd of=/Volumes/Server-Backup/dump-tmp.gz && \ > /sbin/dump -0uanL -f - /usr | gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish > mike@192.168.1.11 dd of=/Volumes/Server-Backup/dump-usr.gz && \ > /sbin/dump -0uanL -f - /var | gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish > mike@192.168.1.11 dd of=/Volumes/Server-Backup/dump-var.gz > > This is working fine, but I have to run the script mannually > and enter the password. > > So my question are these: > 1. Is there any other way of doing this so that I would not > have to deal with the password issue from ssh? This is all > taking place behind a secure firewall on my local network, so > ssh is probably not necessary. > > 2. How can I use samba to mount the Mini's drive? > mount_smbfs would only see the home share belonging to the > user I was logging in with and not the /Volume directory on > the Mac. Sym-links from the users /home to /Volumes didn't > work correctly. How can I access the drives in /Volumes via samba? Actually, I take it back. The original script doesn't work. dd gives an error when I try to backup /usr saying that the file is too large...it dies at 4GB. ------------------------------ Mike Loiterman grantADLER Tel: 630-302-4944 Fax: 773-442-0992 Email: mike@ascendency.net PGP Key: 0xD1B9D18E
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