From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David Jackson" Subject: Re: Backups the old fashioned why Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 17:18:10 -0600 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200205141718.AA194838800@wcox.com> Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: david.jay.jackson@wcox.com, Glynn Clements Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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 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 >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >