From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 04:34:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A54537B401 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 04:34:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.shorewood-epc.co.uk (mail.shorewood-epc.co.uk [195.10.240.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EAA643FA3 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 04:34:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-isp@epcdirect.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.shorewood-epc.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 657CF66B3E; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:34:33 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.shorewood-epc.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.shorewood-epc.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with SMTP id 51665-09; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:34:32 +0100 (BST) Received: from lfarr (bka.shorewood-epc.co.uk [192.168.15.200]) by mail.shorewood-epc.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0014666B32; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:34:31 +0100 (BST) From: "Lawrence Farr" To: "'Dave [Hawk-Systems]'" , Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:34:30 +0100 Message-ID: <003001c35757$b5377e30$c80fa8c0@lfarr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: by mail.shorewood-epc.co.uk X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=-9999.0 required=4.0 WHITELISTED X-Spam-Level: Subject: RE: dump directly to remote HDD over ssh X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:34:36 -0000 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 > > > 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 > > > 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" >