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Date:      Fri, 7 Jan 2000 13:21:21 -0500
From:      Keith Stevenson <k.stevenson@louisville.edu>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dump over ssh
Message-ID:  <20000107132121.B39071@osaka.louisville.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200001071729.KAA05487@mt.sri.com>
References:  <854v9q$1gf9$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <200001071729.KAA05487@mt.sri.com>

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On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 10:29:44AM -0700, Nate Williams wrote:
> > So far I have received *zero* reactions to my proposal in PR #15830.
> > 
> > I suggest to add to dump/restore the capability to access remote
> > tapes over arbitrary rsh(1)-like commands, which would in particular
> > allow to run dump over ssh, say
> > 
> > # dump -0aP ssh -f host:/dev/nrsa0 /
> > 
> > (The PR includes a proof of concept patch to implement this.)
> > 
> > No interest?
> 
> Not really, when you can do it already with the 'unix way'.
> 
> dump -0af - / | ssh host dd of=/dev/nrsao bs=10k

True, you can do it that way, but I prefer the integrated solution in
PR #15830.  Sorry I didn't speak up sooner.

Regards,
--Keith Stevenson--

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Keith Stevenson
System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville
k.stevenson@louisville.edu
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