dump directly to remote HDD over ssh

[Lawrence Farr]

I do dumps to an NFS mount currently. Im sure this is a terrible 
idea for many reasons that people will come up with, but it gives 
me no problems.

Lawrence Farr
EPC Direct Limited 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Dave 
> [Hawk-Systems]
> Sent: 30 July 2003 22:46
> To: freebsd-isp at freebsd.org
> Subject: dump directly to remote HDD over ssh
> 
> 
> 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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