From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 16 14:57:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dc.numbersusa.com (mail.whetstonelogic.com [205.252.46.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A2514D5F for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:57:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@whetstonelogic.com) Received: from work.drapple.com (mark [24.10.78.207]) by dc.numbersusa.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA01216 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 17:57:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mark@whetstonelogic.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199911161808.MAA04655@iaces.com> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:57:42 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Hartley To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup several hosts with dump Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16-Nov-99 Paul T. Root wrote: > 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. I guess my question then becomes: is there a way I can enable the computers to log on to each other as needed without sacrificing security? Mark. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message