From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 22 19:08:46 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB6CE1065679 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:08:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 686138FC22 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:08:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8MJ8i2M039052; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:08:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A3F2FBA8A; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:08:44 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:08:44 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090922190844.GA86183@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: Carmel NY Subject: Re: network freebsd computers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:08:47 -0000 --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:39:53PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: > Most of my networking experience is based on a Windows. Networking two > or more PCs together in a Window's environment is easy. Unfortunately, > I am not getting anywhere accomplishing the same with multiple FreeBSD > machines. I can get them networked with Window's machines; however, not > with each other. FYI, syncronizing files between FreeBSD and other UNIX-like systems is quite easy with rsync [http://www.samba.org/rsync/]. This is also quite easy to automate (e.g. running rsync from cron). For simple and fast data exchange, nothing beats netcat. [nc(1)] For remote backups I tend to pipe the output of dump(8) through netcat on one machine, and pipe the output from a listening netcat on another mach= ine to a file. Suppose I want to backup machine 'foo' to machine 'bar'. On 'bar= ' I would start the following command:=20 'nc -l 65000 |bzip2 -c >foo-root-20090922.dump.bz2'. On 'foo' I would then start the following command as root:=20 'dump -0 -a -C 8 -L -u -f - /|nc bar 65000' Typically I would be doing this sitting behind one of those machines with t= he X window system running and a local terminal and a terminal running ssh to the other machine open. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkq5ILwACgkQEnfvsMMhpyV4RwCfdkVjvSqD3u9ky/BIDcntnODy ttoAmwVSJue7NPcGNZYa/pMXDNDrD5UB =RoQG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe--