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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: Best remote backup method?
To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass)
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 19:47:36 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199608080133.TAA19307@lariat.lariat.org> from "Brett Glass" at Aug 7, 96 07:33:41 pm
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> I'd like to send the output of the "dump" command to a disk on a remote
> system in order to do backups. However, the method of doing this specified
> on the "dump" man page (specifying "host:file") doesn't seem to work, and
> is also insecure because it relies on rexec. What is the preferred method?
> Is it possible to pipe the output of "dump" through FTP? Is there yet a
> better way?

Look into AMANDA... it should be in the ports/packages collection...
--don