Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 12:08:35 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com> To: mark@whetstonelogic.com (Mark Hartley) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backup several hosts with dump Message-ID: <199911161808.MAA04655@iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.991116082242.mark@whetstonelogic.com> from "Mark Hartley" at Nov 16, 1999 08:22:42 AM
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In a previous message, Mark Hartley said: > > I have searched high and low for the answer to this: man pages, > website, -questions archives, but I have been unable to find the > answer so... > > > I have a SCSI DAT drive (DDS2) in my FreeBSD3.3-STABLE machine that > is working great. I can backup my partitions with dump, and all > works great. What I want to do is back up a couple of other FreeBSD > machines on my local net as well. (one FreeBSD3.2-RELEASE and one > FreeBSD2.2.8-STABLE) I'd like to be able to run one script from the > machine with the tape drive and have it cycle through the machines, > backing them up one at a time. From the remote machine: rdump 0auf tape_machine:/dev/nrst0 filesystem. > I've looked into Amanda, but it is overkill for what I want to do. > My question is what syntax do I use with dump (or do I use rdump?) to > back up the other machines? What do I need to do on the other > machines to enable them to be backed up? The tape_machine has to allow root (or bin) from the remote machine to login without a password, I believe. You can run this from tape machine by putting an rsh (ssh) remote_machine in front of the rdump command. And then the remote machine will have to allow root (bin) of the tape machine to login without a password. However, if you are backing up 2 or more machines more than once a week, amanda is not overkill. -- Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining." -- Jeff Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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