From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 5: 8: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C7137B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 05:07:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmxpita.excite.com (nat7.excitenetwork.com [63.236.75.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB1EF43E81 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 05:07:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from baszd-meg@excite.com) Received: by xmxpita.excite.com (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3A6598AEA3; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 08:07:14 -0400 (EDT) To: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu Subject: Re: How to get back FreeBSD-dumped data with linux-restore. Received: from [193.158.99.90] by xprdmailfe2.nwk.excite.com via HTTP; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 08:07:14 EST Reply-To: baszd-meg@excite.com From: "baszd" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: baszd-meg@excite.com X-Mailer: PHP Importance: High X-Priority: 1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <20020703120714.3A6598AEA3@xmxpita.excite.com> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 08:07:14 -0400 (EDT) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! > This is a perpetual problem with many bad solutions for big money > available. Yes, I know. That's why I try to do all that backup stuff as simple and consequently as reliable as possible using dump/restore (instead of expensive and pompous GUI programs like arcserv). > The solution depends a little on how confident you are in your network. I do the backups at night with cron using a bashscript. I prefer ssh. The "backround" is all right, but the different versions of dump/restore is what spoils me. > So, try piping a dd on the data system through an rsh to a dump on your > backup system. I think I did that: ssh -l root fileserver "dump -h0 -a -u -f - /dev/ad0s1e" | dd of=/dev/nst0 bs=10k > For restore take a pipe of a restore on the backup system through > an rsh to a dd on the data system. Could you explain that? What is the command for that? > We used to do this with various BSD and sVR4/Solaris systems with > a BSD system being the backup engine with good success - including > successful occasional restores. In that situation we had a machine > room with fast internal net and switch, etc isolated from outside > sniffing. Maybe FreeBSDs and Solaris' dump/restore like each other more than FreeBSDs and Linuxs one? Two NICs in each host is of course a perfect setup for large and secure backups, but I am limited to my hardware... Cheers, bm. ------------------------------------------------ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message