Hi Raphael,
* Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Friday, June 24, 2005, 8:27:02 PM: > I have one machine (Machine 1) that I need backup its files > periodically. I also have another machine (Machine 2) that will hold > the backup. Machine 2 can "see" (make requests to) Machine 1, but the > opposite isn't true. The network is covered by a firewall, so I don > need a paranoid solution. I was thinking about doing the following: [strange idea involving netcat] > But before doing this, I'd like some suggestions or may be some better > solutions you guys might know. [...] Using netcat, you would send all your data, including the login passwords to your machine, its ssh-host-key and so on, unencrypted over your network. You don't want that, except when its a cross-cable and the machines are just some meters apart... Why not use ssh? >From machine 2 you can ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cd /; tar --exclude=./proc --excluse=./sys -cz ." | dd of=/backupfrommachine1.tgz With minor changes, you could use that in the other direction, too. cd /; tar --exclude=./proc --excluse=./sys -cz . | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "dd of=/backupfrommachine1.tgz" HTH Timo -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
