Date: 30 Nov 1999 20:20:56 +0100 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup remote host using SSH Message-ID: <82182o$163f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911300941130.28713-100000@almazs.pacex.net>
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daniel B <danielb@pacex.net> wrote: > I am trying to backup a remote host 'frank' to a tape drive in a local > host 'homer' using SSh. > What syntax can I use for ssh to work with tar? > > On local host 'homer' > tar cvf /dev/nrst0 slogin frank://home/users does not work No, I guess it doesn't. I wonder how you came up with that command line. This might be what you want to do: # ssh frank 'tar cf - / | ssh homer dd bs=20b of=/dev/nrsa0' (Of course you don't want to get into the habit of creating tar archives with absolute paths. And in practice you'd install something like buffer to replace the dd above with a buffering program. And I recommend dump over tar for backups. Etc.) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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