From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 11 07:00:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA21062 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 07:00:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nak.myhouse.com (nak.myhouse.com [209.70.45.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA21056 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 07:00:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zoonie@myhouse.com) Received: from localhost (zoonie@localhost) by nak.myhouse.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA01539; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:59:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from zoonie@myhouse.com) X-Authentication-Warning: nak.myhouse.com: zoonie owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:59:08 -0500 (EST) From: zoonie To: Karl Pielorz cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fedup with Dumps & NC... In-Reply-To: <34FD69DB.5B2D7C25@tdx.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org why don't you look at AMANDA? On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote: > Hi All, > > All I want to be able to do is the following: > > > machine-a> dump tuaf - /usr2 | nc -w 20 machine-b 4000 > > then on Machine B, > > machine-b> nc -l -w 20 -p 4000 >/dev/nrst0 > > > And backup Machine A onto Machine B, with as little fuss as possible, i.e. no > amanda, no rmt etc... > > This 'appears' to work, until you try a restore - at which point you get > messages such as: > > machine-b> restore tf /dev/nrst0 > Tape block size (1440) is not a multiple of dump block size (1024) > > machine-b> restore tf /dev/nrst0 > Tape block size (1648) is not a multiple of dump block size (1024) > > etc. > > > Am I right in thinking this is a re-blocking issue? - if so, is there any way > to cure it, or a better way of using the default (i.e. standard BSD stuff) to > backup a remote machine, without going to the trouble of setting up 'trust' > relationships etc. with rmt ? > > Any help - as usual, gratefully received... > > Regards, > > Karl Pielorz > > 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