Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:57:42 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Hartley <mark@whetstonelogic.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup several hosts with dump Message-ID: <XFMail.991116145742.mark@whetstonelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <199911161808.MAA04655@iaces.com>
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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
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