Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:22:21 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: n dhert <ndhert@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: restore -rf user@host:file Message-ID: <20091124112221.GA3315@current.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <8021a2660911240244j1a5c2abcu71866324ada0dc83@mail.gmail.com> References: <8021a2660911240244j1a5c2abcu71866324ada0dc83@mail.gmail.com>
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El día Tuesday, November 24, 2009 a las 11:44:52AM +0100, n dhert escribió: > To use the restore command (dump/restore) with a dump file on a remote > machine, the man restore tells you can use the syntax restore -rf > user@host:file, this uses rcmd(3) > If from the target machine (on same subnet as remotemachine), > logged in as root, I enter > targetmachine# cd /home/testrestore > targetmachine# tar -rf root@ IP_of_remote_machine:/home/file.dmp Why you are talking here about tar(1) if you need restore(1M)? > I get > IP_of_remote_machine: Connection refused > login to IP_of_remote_machine as root failed > There needs some more setup for this in order to work, (hosts.equiv, > .rhosts or something ??). > How exactly ? > (I just need this for the restore, certainly not to be a permanent way of > transferring files) just use another normal user and not 'root'; you only need read access to the file on the remote server; > > <root@%20machine.domain:/dir1/dir2/file.dmp> I'm usingt for restore: # newfs /dev/daXXXXX # mount /dev/daXXXXX /mnt # cd /mnt # ssh guru@albatros cat dumpsRebelion-20080825/usr.dmp.gz | gzip -dc | restore -r -f - (my dumps are compressed there); HIH matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Vote NO to EU The Lisbon Treaty: http://www.no-means-no.eu
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