Hi, I use dump/restore for backup of my local filesystems on my desktop system using a DDS3 DAT tape (Sony SDT-9000). What is the best way for me to backup my thinkpad onto the tape on my desktop system? Both systems are on the same ethernet LAN. I would like to use a system similar to what the dump command allows me to do -- occasional full backup with more frequent incremental backups. Although this is fully automated on my desktop system via cron jobs, for the thinkpad I am happy to initiate each backup manually. Thanks for any advice! -- ____________________________________________________________________ Robert Paulsen paulsen@texas.net
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I use dump/restore for backup of my local filesystems on my desktop system using a DDS3 DAT tape (Sony SDT-9000).
What is the best way for me to backup my thinkpad onto the tape on my desktop system? Both systems are on the same ethernet LAN.
I would like to use a system similar to what the dump command allows me to do -- occasional full backup with more frequent incremental backups. Although this is fully automated on my desktop system via cron jobs, for the thinkpad I am happy to initiate each backup manually.
Try something like this: dump /dev/hda1 |(ssh workstation|dd of=/dev/tapedev ) Where you are using the right dump command on the laptop (I don't use dump) and pass it onto the tape device on the workstation via a [rs]sh login. If necessary, you will be prompted for a password. This shouldn't affect the data being transfered via the pipe. The dd reads from stdin (the pipe) and writes to tape. You may need to specify a block size with the bs= parameter. You will need to log into the desktop as root or an account that has perms to write to the tape device. If you were doing backups with tar, you can specify a hostname along with the filename parameter (ef -f workstation:/dev/tape) to initiate an rsh session transparently. - -- Brian Youngstrom briany@altavista.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: pgpenvelope 2.10.2 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAjuJpsoACgkQvQlmCpy4cCPXiwCdFxWIZzsfxhhsfBIY2Bk/YEXP rywAniCXH9vBLwUrD4zL4tTCLrwGsH45 =SJvE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Þann mánudagur 27 ágúst 2001 01:47 skrifaðir þú:
I use dump/restore for backup of my local filesystems on my desktop system using a DDS3 DAT tape (Sony SDT-9000).
What is the best way for me to backup my thinkpad onto the tape on my desktop system? Both systems are on the same ethernet LAN.
I would like to use a system similar to what the dump command allows me to do -- occasional full backup with more frequent incremental backups. Although this is fully automated on my desktop system via cron jobs, for the thinkpad I am happy to initiate each backup manually.
Try something like this:
dump /dev/hda1 |(ssh workstation|dd of=/dev/tapedev )
Where you are using the right dump command on the laptop (I don't use dump) and pass it onto the tape device on the workstation via a [rs]sh login. If necessary, you will be prompted for a password. This shouldn't affect the data being transfered via the pipe. The dd reads from stdin (the pipe) and writes to tape. You may need to specify a block size with the bs= parameter.
You will need to log into the desktop as root or an account that has perms to write to the tape device.
If you were doing backups with tar, you can specify a hostname along with the filename parameter (ef -f workstation:/dev/tape) to initiate an rsh session transparently.
This ought to work. dump 0sf 100000 remotehost:/dev/nst0 /home
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:58:50AM +0000, Tor Sigurdsson wrote:
Þann mánudagur 27 ágúst 2001 01:47 skrifaðir þú:
I use dump/restore for backup of my local filesystems on my desktop system using a DDS3 DAT tape (Sony SDT-9000).
What is the best way for me to backup my thinkpad onto the tape on my desktop system? Both systems are on the same ethernet LAN.
I would like to use a system similar to what the dump command allows me to do -- occasional full backup with more frequent incremental backups. Although this is fully automated on my desktop system via cron jobs, for the thinkpad I am happy to initiate each backup manually.
Try something like this:
dump /dev/hda1 |(ssh workstation|dd of=/dev/tapedev )
Where you are using the right dump command on the laptop (I don't use dump) and pass it onto the tape device on the workstation via a [rs]sh login. If necessary, you will be prompted for a password. This shouldn't affect the data being transfered via the pipe. The dd reads from stdin (the pipe) and writes to tape. You may need to specify a block size with the bs= parameter.
You will need to log into the desktop as root or an account that has perms to write to the tape device.
If you were doing backups with tar, you can specify a hostname along with the filename parameter (ef -f workstation:/dev/tape) to initiate an rsh session transparently.
This ought to work.
dump 0sf 100000 remotehost:/dev/nst0 /home
That looks easy enough! Will try it out. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Robert Paulsen paulsen@texas.net
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 06:47:46PM -0700, Brian Youngstrom wrote:
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I use dump/restore for backup of my local filesystems on my desktop system using a DDS3 DAT tape (Sony SDT-9000).
What is the best way for me to backup my thinkpad onto the tape on my desktop system? Both systems are on the same ethernet LAN.
I would like to use a system similar to what the dump command allows me to do -- occasional full backup with more frequent incremental backups. Although this is fully automated on my desktop system via cron jobs, for the thinkpad I am happy to initiate each backup manually.
Try something like this:
dump /dev/hda1 |(ssh workstation|dd of=/dev/tapedev )
Looks interesting -- will give it a try, but won't have the time for a few days. Will need to set up ssh to allow root login, I guess. Or change permissions on /dev/nst0 to allow regular user to write. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Robert Paulsen paulsen@texas.net
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