"standard" dump will talk rsh at a remote system if you give it a backup device as host:/device. rsh security basically sux (technical term) so you will have to figure out how to use something more secure yourself. For an ad hoc backup, its pretty easy to just turn it on, run the dump and then turn it off. Or turn it on and use tcpwrappers to limit things. That would be similar to what Legato and Veritas do. Hattie Rouge > -----Original Message----- > From: psyche-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:psyche-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Doug Wyatt > Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 8:15 AM > To: psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Backup remote machine to local tape drive > > > There are a number of ways to approach this. First you need > to decide if you want to use dump, tar or perhaps Amanda. > With Amanda or tar, remote backup provisions are built-in so > you just need to RTFM. I think you could probably use dump > in concert with rmt, but I'm not really familiar with dump usage. > > You could NFS export the filesystem from the 8.0 box and > mount it on the 9.0 box and run tar from there, too. Perhaps > you could use dump in the same way, but I don't know. > > Don't forget that backup is only part of the solution. You > also need to validate the backup - don't just assume that if > the backup seems to run without errors that your data is > recoverable, or that it even got onto the tape for that > matter. Also, you need to be clear on how you will get data > off the tape and back onto the 8.0 system under various circumstances. > > Doug Wyatt > > Quillen, Channon wrote: > > > I recall a discussion, it may not have been here, about backing-up a > > remote machine to a local tape drive. I have a Linux 8.0 > box on the > > network with no tape drive. I have a Linux 9.0 box with a > tape drive on > > the same network. Is there any way to backup the 8.0 box > from the 9.0 box? > > > > -Channon > > > > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche> -list > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
