From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 18 1:17: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cody.jharris.com (cody.jharris.com [205.238.128.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88DE937B6D9 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 01:16:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by cody.jharris.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f1I9eqb10568; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 03:40:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 03:40:52 -0600 (CST) From: Nick Rogness X-Sender: nick@cody.jharris.com To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dump and ssh In-Reply-To: <20010218010436.H62368@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > # ssh -luser remotehost "cat dump_file.dmp" | restore -[irRtx]f - > > > That will actually restore your dump on the machine you are > > restoring from. If you just want to grap the already dumped file > > and not restore: > > > # ssh remotehost 'cat dump_file' | cat - > local_dump_file > ^^^^^^^ > Why the gratuitous cat(1)? Easier to follow...or maybe not. It is not needed but I was going off of your post which used |restore... The extra cat(1)'s in my previous post were not needed...I apologize for the extra 7-30 characters in everyones already bloated inbox. Nick Rogness - Keep on routing in a Free World... "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message