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From: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net>
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Brett Glass wrote:
> 
> I'd like to send the output of the "dump" command to a disk on a remote
> system in order to do backups. However, the method of doing this specified
> on the "dump" man page (specifying "host:file") doesn't seem to work, and
> is also insecure because it relies on rexec. What is the preferred method?
> Is it possible to pipe the output of "dump" through FTP? Is there yet a
> better way?

Brett, I belive this was discussed a couple of weeks ago, Should
be in the archives.. A bit of digging may result in further info.

But if I'm not mistaken the outcome was running dump on the system
the file is to get dump'ed to. Not on the system being dump'ed.

The idea (As I saw it) was to pull the data versus pushing the
data..

I'm geussing something like this to dump host2 on host1.
	host1% dump /filename /nfs/host2

I've never used dump, So don't bank on it.. :)
I'm going from memory of something I belive I read here on
-questions.

Luck

-Enjoy
Gary
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