Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:31:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Mario Doria <mariodoria@yahoo.com> To: Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com>, Mario Doria <mariodoria@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Remote dumps Message-ID: <20010831003154.94719.qmail@web14201.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <005101c13194$49b1e280$14ce21c7@avatar.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--- Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com> wrote: > It works very much like dump does, you just include the remote hostname > before the tape device. For example: > > rdump dumpoptions remotename:remotetapedevicename localfilesystemname > > To make sure you are networking is configured to do this, login to you local > machine as the user that is going to be doing the dumps (usually root). Then > type "rsh remotename ls". If you get any errors, such as permission denied, > etc., you need to solve that first before you do the rdump. By default, the > rsh command will fail. What I normally do is the put the name of the local > machine in the /root/.rhosts file on the remote machine. Make sure that the > permission of the .rhosts file is 600 and its owned by root (assuming that > it how you want to do it). > > Note that by doing this, you're allowing the local root user to login to the > remote machine as root with root privileges. Make sure you can live with > that. Their may be safer ways of doing this, but this is the only way I > know. Use with caution. > Now, how can I do rdumps over SSH? With it, I can identify using a pair of keys with no password. It is insecure, but no as much. Am I wrong here? > Kory > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mario Doria > > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:55 PM > > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Remote dumps > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Can anyone point me to some information regarding doing remote > > dumps? I want to > > dump my entire filesystem to another machine. What is necessary > > in order to do > > that? > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Mario Doria > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010831003154.94719.qmail>