From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 30 12:47:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from search.sparks.net (search.sparks.net [208.5.188.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9E0837B552 for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 12:47:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmiller@search.sparks.net) Received: by search.sparks.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id CC031DAFD; Tue, 30 May 2000 15:45:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by search.sparks.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B995CDAFB; Tue, 30 May 2000 15:45:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 15:45:22 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller To: Willem Brown Cc: keith@mail.telestream.com, Victor Sudakov , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone using dump(8) In-Reply-To: <393372ED.F3B24C20@brwn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 30 May 2000, Willem Brown wrote: > Hi, > > You can actually use ssh instead of rsh to do the remote dump. > Just rename the existing rsh executable and create a link to ssh > > mv /usr/bin/rsh /usr/bin/rsh.o > ln -s /usr/local/bin/ssh /usr/hin/rsh > > You would also have to configure the remote host to allow this host > to connect without specifying a password. It doesn't seem to prompt > for one. > > I would imagine that you can use public keys and host based > authentication to control the access to the remote server. You can use .shost files after ssh'ing from each box to the other: HOWEVER... A better thing to do for network backups in most circumstances is to use amanda. remote root access is not required. Has lots of advantages for network wide backups over dump/pax/cpio/etc. look in the ports section for a better description. --- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message