Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 20:25:53 -0400 From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unattended remote backups via ssh??? Message-ID: <20010907202551.D4908@widomaker.com> In-Reply-To: <05bbptgo0ovdjb9qg4k93l25i8i50a5rpf@4ax.com> References: <SEN.999646686.811908187@news.sentex.net> <05bbptgo0ovdjb9qg4k93l25i8i50a5rpf@4ax.com>
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On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:47:20AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > /sbin/dump -0 -b 600 -uanf - / |gzip -9 | ssh -2 -c blowfish > safepriv@backuphost.example.com dd of=/backup1/subdir/dump-host-root-0.gz > > will dump the root partition to your backup maching into a file. > > /sbin/dump -0 -b 600 -uanf - / | ssh -2 -c blowfish > tapeprivuser@backuphost.example.com dd of=/dev/nrsa0 > > will dump it to tape. You might also consider using bzip. gzip is great, but doesn't recover from errors. It's more like an all-or-nothing deal. bzip is supposed to be able to recover from errors in a single block. -- "Star Wars Moral Number 17: Teddy bears are dangerous in herds." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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