From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Subject: Re: Backups the old fashioned why Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 23:57:13 +0100 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020514225713.GP10579@piku.org.uk> References: <200205141640.AA175177978@wcox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200205141640.AA175177978@wcox.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:40:33PM -0600, David Jackson wrote: | Howdy -- | 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 I assume TCP/IP is running between the two, so why not use SSH (otherwise you're back to using Kermit or uucp). I think you can (somehow) tunnel things through it. Somehow pipe the output from cpio (or tar) into the tunnel, and it comes out the other end and goes onto the tape. A quick google turned this up: http://www.psychosis.com/datbkr/ maybe it's useful? I just hope you don't pay for your phone calls when backing up! -- I will not burp in class 6AD6 865A BF6E 76BB 1FC2 | www.piku.org.uk/public-key.asc E4C4 DEEA 7D08 D511 E149 | www.piku.org.uk wnzrf@cvxh.bet.hx (rot13'd)