I prefer to tar(1)... On 1/7/11, Jeff Ross <jr...@openvistas.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I have 2 servers that get backed up to tape. I was scping the daily > dump files to the server with the tape attached but now I no longer have > hard disk room to do that. > > So I read the man page for rdump/dump and that led me to rmt but I have > been unable to make this work. It fails with a connection refused > error, and I could not glean from the rmt manpage why. > > jr...@dukkha:/home/jross $ sudo sh -x /etc/scripts/tape_backup.sh > Password: > + dump -0a -f nirvana.internal:/dev/nrst0 /dev/sd0a > nirvana.internal: Connection refused > + exit > > nirvana does have pf enabled, but it uses a pass all ruleset. > > So I next wrote a quick shell script that pushes the dump data across > the lan with ssh and uses dd to write it to the tape drive. > > #!/bin/sh > #section 1 --/ > dump -0a -f - /dev/sd0a | ssh nirvana "dd of=/dev/nrst0 bs=1024" > #section 2 --/cvs > dump -0a -f - /dev/sd1g | ssh nirvana "dd of=/dev/nrst0 bs=1024" > #section 3 --/home > dump -0a -f - /dev/sd0k | ssh nirvana "dd of=/dev/nrst0 bs=1024" > #section 4 --/profiles > dump -0a -f - /dev/sd1b | ssh nirvana "dd of=/dev/nrst0 bs=1024" > #section 5 --/shared > dump -0a -f - /dev/sd1d | ssh nirvana "dd of=/dev/nrst0 bs=1024" > #section 6 --/stars > dump -0a -f - /dev/sd1e | ssh nirvana "dd of=/dev/nrst0 bs=1024" > #section 7 --/bookkeeping > dump -0a -f - /dev/sd0n | ssh nirvana "dd of=/dev/nrst0 bs=1024" > #done > ssh nirvana mt rewoffl > > After a little trial and error this works, with one caveat--when a tape > fills up the section it is working on aborts rather than calling for the > second tape as a local dump-to-tape would. > > I can manually split this into two sections but that won't scale. > > Thanks in advance for any cluesticks or hints! > > Jeff Ross > >
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