From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 7 17:29:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wilma.widomaker.com (wilma.widomaker.com [204.17.220.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC06537B401 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 17:29:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [209.96.179.229] (helo=escape.shannon.net) by wilma.widomaker.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #2) id 15fW0A-0009xh-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2001 20:29:39 -0400 Received: from daydream (daydream.shannon.net [192.168.1.10]) by escape.shannon.net (8.11.0/8.8.8) with ESMTP id f880Prw00189 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 20:25:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from shannon by daydream with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15fVwX-0001VE-00 for ; Fri, 07 Sep 2001 20:25:53 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 20:25:53 -0400 From: Charles Shannon Hendrix To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unattended remote backups via ssh??? Message-ID: <20010907202551.D4908@widomaker.com> Mail-Followup-To: questions@freebsd.org References: <05bbptgo0ovdjb9qg4k93l25i8i50a5rpf@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <05bbptgo0ovdjb9qg4k93l25i8i50a5rpf@4ax.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i 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 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