[PLUG] Backing Up Multiple Machines

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Russell Senior wrote:

> You can run tar on the remote (backed-up) machine and pipe it through ssh
> and dd it onto tape, e.g.:
>
>  ssh root at remotehost 'tar -C / clf - .' | dd of=/dev/nst0 obs=<tapeblocksize>
>
> The corresponding compare pass is something like this:
>
>  dd ibs=<tapeblocksize> if=/dev/nst0 | ssh root at remotehost 'tar -C / -dlf -'

   Thanks, Russell.

   I'll export and nfs-mount so the fullbru backup can do it automagically
for me.

Rich

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