On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:28:19PM +0000, Barry Samuels wrote:
I discovered, a few weeks ago, a backup script called Flexbackup which I rather like.
I can use it to backup a remote machine via ssh. Once ssh is setup to do a password-less login Flexbackup can do the rest. What it doesn't provide is an option to restore to a remote machine. Is there a way of retrieving a file or files from a tape on the local machine, using Afio, and passing it across directly to the remote machine via ssh rather than restoring locally and copying across?
Seeing as no-one else has, I feel I should mention the 'industry standard' tools (if there is such a thing) for ext filesystems, dump & restore. Most modern versions can use ssh. You will also need rmt installed on the tape host.
$ export RSH=ssh $ dump ... -f user@tapehost:/dev/nst0 ... $ restore ... -f user@tapehost:/dev/nst0 ...
If you are looking to regularly back up a few machines, I would recommend amanda. The effort of setting it up is well worth it for the ease of operation.