From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 12 18:22:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07CED37B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:22:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.amplex.net (mailsrv.amplex.net [65.165.120.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A22943E77 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:22:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@amplex.net) Received: from marktoshiba (65-165-120-243.amplex.net [65.165.120.243]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by mailsrv.amplex.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gAD2MkY12481 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128 bits) verified NO) for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:22:46 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <020b01c28abb$7ca5bff0$f378a541@amplex.net> From: "Mark Radabaugh" To: References: <20021112200003.H72047-100000@floyd.gnulife.org> Subject: Re: [OT?] Making backups with dump Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:22:17 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Without answering your question :-) You might want to take a look at Amanda (http://www.amanda.org) since it will take care of dealing with all of the trivia of remote backups. A great piece of software.. Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamie" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 9:09 PM Subject: [OT?] Making backups with dump > > > > I am not sure if this is on topic or not, if not, please correct me. I > am running some freebsd servers at an ISP and I am trying to do remote > backups with dump. I am trying to run it over ssh so this is the command I > am using: > > dump -0uaf - /www/homes| ssh remotehost.foo.com dd of=/usr/backup3/jo.test bs=10k > > > I know that I can run an incremental backup this way: > > dump -3uaf - /www/homes| ssh remotehost.foo.com dd of=/usr/backup3/jo.test2 bs=10k > > > (I changed the backup number from 0 to 3, and I changed the output file > to a different filename.) > > > > How is dump supposed to know which files to incrementally back up? It > seems as though it is generating a file just as large as the first. I know > my method of sending it across ssh may be messing something up. Any ideas? > Thanks! > > > > - Jamie > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message