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?
Any technical gems gratefully received.
I recommend a look at rdiff-backup which does all you require using rsync and ssh:
http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/index.html
Supplementary documentation referenced on the site will help you set up keyless ssh, but I suspect it'll be pretty much the same method as flexbackup uses.
Cheers, Laurie.