Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 22:28:21 -0700 From: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bad example 17.1 in the 'File System Backups' section of the Handbook (17.8.1) Message-ID: <CAEC7393gkZK-A%2BKbknvBUuGMZbt0z4KoKfbsvDT=qqJdDwZ_jA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAEC7391R74BQNX2mTHNEqvwybeMTZc=U%2BEPEq6jBrVp1anprzA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAEC7391R74BQNX2mTHNEqvwybeMTZc=U%2BEPEq6jBrVp1anprzA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 6/16/20, Donald Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com> wrote: > Example 17.1. Using dump over ssh > > # /sbin/dump -0uan -f - /usr | gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish \ > targetuser@targetmachine.example.com dd > of=/mybigfiles/dump-usr-l0.gz > > Problems seen in my circumstances (small system, single HDD): > > 1) dump(8) only accepts [filesystem] options as listed in /etc/fstab. > Unless you have a separate fs entry for /usr, the only choice you have > is / > > 2) stock openssh does not appear to come with the blowfish cypher. The > default is something called chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com, which seems > rather scary. > > 3) My Ubuntu 18.04.4 'safe' machine would not accept aes256-cdc, only > *-ctr cypher types and this 'chacha-poly1305' cipher. > > 4) I had to create the stash directory in my ftp user's home directory > and touch the actual file name before it would store my dump results. Wrong. I had to create the directory, but touch'ing the file made it stall after creating the worker threads. -- Don Wilde **************************************************** * What is the Internet of Things but a system * * of systems including humans? * ****************************************************
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