On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Steven Hildreth wrote:
>
> I need to make remote dumps from one server to another's tape drive.
>
> Two servers, mycroft and tanstaafl, tanstaafl has a tape drive. I have
> tried:
>
> # dump -0u -b 64 -d 141000 -s 11500 -L mycroft_etc -f tanstaafl:/dev/nst0
> /etc
>
> on the mycroft server, but it gives me a "tanstaafl unknown host" and "login
> to tanstaafl as root has failed".
>
> I suppose a "server" side must be running on tanstaafl (the machine with the
> tape drive) for remote servers to dump to its drive?
>
> Thanks for anything, getting there slowly and surely.
>
You might try something like:
# ssh mycroft dump -b 64 -d 141000 -s 11500 - /etc \
| dd of=/dev/nst0 bs=32k
That may not be exactly right, but you get the picture. I've done
something similar to this before and it worked just fine. Hope that helps.
Steve
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