Hi all,
Thanks for the input thus far.
I forgot to mention that I had a working solution by piping the output of a
find command
to cpio, which creates an archive file on the other server. The problem is
that the recipient
server keeps asking me for a friggin' password, which means I have to
babysit my backups
rather than be able to run them from the cron system. Is there a way I can
set up the
machines so that the root password between these two machines in a LAN does
not get
asked for, or alternatively find a way to specify a username and password on
the
command line ?
(Yes, I know that is not safe ...)
BTW, when I run the command
# tar cvzf - /tmp/testdir | ssh user@209.212.123.157 'cat > ~/backup.tgz'
It asks me for a password, and when I type the correct root password in, ( I
logged into the 'sending'
server as root ) , it tells me "Permission denied, please try again".
I have spent literally weeks looking for a simple easy-to-use tool that can
run on RH 8 and RH 7
which has the following characteristics:
1) Does not need a GUI
2) Relatively simple to setup and use
3) Can backup to a network drive, WITHOUT user intervention.
4) Can be run in the task scheduler
5) Can compress archives
6) Allows you to backup directories as well as filesystems. ( Unlike dump !)
Ideally, I want to use tools that are already apart of the system, but I am
willing
to compromise. ( I will look into using 'flexbackup' , which someone
suggested )
Regards, Jason
----- Original Message -----
From: "Toni Erdmann" <antonius.erdmann@siemens.com>
To: <psyche-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: network backups with tar
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 06:11:53PM +0200, Jason Dale wrote:
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>1) When I do a man page on 'tar', the screen comes up all garbled. I
believe
> >> this was discussed on the list a while back, but I can't seem to
find those mails
> >> that will shed some insight on why this is happening. Does this
have something to
> >> do with the $TERM variable?
> >>
> >>2) I am using 'tar' to create a backup of a directory structure to
another Linux server
> >> on the same LAN. Here is a screen dump:
> >>
> >># tar -cvzf -f 209.212.123.157:/usr/backups /tmp/testdir
> >>
> >>Gives this output
> >>
> >>tar: 209.212.123.157\:/usr/backups: Cannot stat: No such file or
directory
> >
> > I am unaware that tar will send a file to another machine as your
> > are trying to do. This can be done using rsh or probably ssh but not
> > directly. Also tar files for sanity sake should end in a .tar
> > extension.
>
> what about:
>
> tar cvzf - /tmp/testdir | ssh user@209.212.123.157 'cat > ~/backup.tgz'
>
> tar puts everything to STDOUT ('-') which then is passed to ssh,
> where cat puts everything from STDIN to backup.tgz in user's home
> directory
>
> Toni
>
>
>
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