Re: Backups the old fashioned why

["David Jackson" <david.jay.jackson@wcox.com>]

Glynn --
Thanks for you reply, I new this was simple, I'm guessing dump would support a similar syntax ( man talks about rsh shell). Another question about dump,
is their a problem with dump and ext3 filesystems?

Thanks as always,
David


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>
Date: 	Tue, 14 May 2002 23:57:47 +0100

>
>David Jackson wrote:
>
>> Simple situation, how to back up servers across
>> a phone line (network):
>> 
>> I want to backup meatloaf to a tape drive attached
>> to gravy using a dialup connection. Can I specify
>> a hostname as part of the device? 
>> 
>> For instance on meatloaf:
>> find . -depth -print |cpio -o > gravy:/dev/rmt0
>
>This won't work; the ">" operator is part of the shell, which doesn't
>support the "host:path" syntax.
>
>However, cpio itself (like tar) understands the "host:path" syntax
>(this spawns "rsh" to connect to the specified host, so the remote
>host needs to support rsh). So, you could use:
>
>	find . -depth -print |cpio -o -O gravy:/dev/rmt0
>or:
>	find . -depth -print |cpio -o -O username@gravy:/dev/rmt0
>
>-- 
>Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>
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