dump directly to remote HDD over ssh

[mario]

this works for me (sorry no datestamp):

dump -0uf - / | bzip2 | ssh user at box.domain.com dd of=/pathto/file.bz


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> Number of smaller servers, current doing dumps to secondary drives each
> night. Extra copies are then rsync'd to a big storage server for long
> term archive
>
> <-- currently -->
> dump -0u -a -f /backup/usr /usr
> rsync -v /backup/usr \
>    destination.server:/backups/server1/usr.0.`date +%Y%m%d`.dump
> </-- currently -->
>
> What we want to do is eliminate the need for the secondary drive if need
> be, and do the dump directly over to the big storage server where we can
> then archive all the "images" from the one drive.
>
> Am lookiung at something like this, can someone sanity check the syntax
> for me please?
>
> <--untested code -->
> dump -0 -u -f- /usr | ssh server1 at destination.server \
>    cat - > /backups/server1/usr.0.`date +%Y%m%d`.dump
> </-- untested code -->
>
> thanks
>
> Dave
>
>
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