Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:34:30 +0100 From: "Lawrence Farr" <freebsd-isp@epcdirect.co.uk> To: "'Dave [Hawk-Systems]'" <dave@hawk-systems.com>, <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: dump directly to remote HDD over ssh Message-ID: <003001c35757$b5377e30$c80fa8c0@lfarr> In-Reply-To: <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNCELNCOAC.dave@hawk-systems.com>
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I do dumps to an NFS mount currently. Im sure this is a terrible idea for many reasons that people will come up with, but it gives me no problems. Lawrence Farr EPC Direct Limited > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Dave > [Hawk-Systems] > Sent: 30 July 2003 22:46 > To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org > Subject: dump directly to remote HDD over ssh > > > Number of smaller servers, current doing dumps to secondary > drives each night. > Extra copies are then rsync'd to a big storage server for > long term archive > > <-- currently --> > dump -0u -a -f /backup/usr /usr > rsync -v /backup/usr \ > destination.server:/backups/server1/usr.0.`date +%Y%m%d`.dump > </-- currently --> > > What we want to do is eliminate the need for the secondary > drive if need be, and > do the dump directly over to the big storage server where we > can then archive > all the "images" from the one drive. > > Am lookiung at something like this, can someone sanity check > the syntax for me > please? > > <--untested code --> > dump -0 -u -f- /usr | ssh server1@destination.server \ > cat - > /backups/server1/usr.0.`date +%Y%m%d`.dump > </-- untested code --> > > thanks > > Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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