Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 10:27:40 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does rdump write the backup to an ordinary file? Message-ID: <99Sep21.102548est.40384@border.alcanet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <5212.937871144@localhost>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> wrote:
>> Yes; on the destination machine, do a "touch /tmp/var.dump" to create the
>> file before running the backup.
>
>Really? I never knew that worked. :)
It's sort-of documented in rmt(8):
BUGS
People should be discouraged from using this for a remote file access
protocol.
There are a few caveats:
1) It uses rexec/rcmd, which is a security hole.
2) The destination file won't be truncated by rmt or rdump. This means
that if you dump 5GB (say) into it one day and 1GB (say) the next,
the file will still report as 5GB.
Peter
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