Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:59:08 -0500 (EST) From: zoonie <zoonie@myhouse.com> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fedup with Dumps & NC... Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980311095846.1491C-100000@nak.myhouse.com> In-Reply-To: <34FD69DB.5B2D7C25@tdx.co.uk>
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why don't you look at AMANDA? On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote: > Hi All, > > All I want to be able to do is the following: > > > machine-a> dump tuaf - /usr2 | nc -w 20 machine-b 4000 > > then on Machine B, > > machine-b> nc -l -w 20 -p 4000 >/dev/nrst0 > > > And backup Machine A onto Machine B, with as little fuss as possible, i.e. no > amanda, no rmt etc... > > This 'appears' to work, until you try a restore - at which point you get > messages such as: > > machine-b> restore tf /dev/nrst0 > Tape block size (1440) is not a multiple of dump block size (1024) > > machine-b> restore tf /dev/nrst0 > Tape block size (1648) is not a multiple of dump block size (1024) > > etc. > > > Am I right in thinking this is a re-blocking issue? - if so, is there any way > to cure it, or a better way of using the default (i.e. standard BSD stuff) to > backup a remote machine, without going to the trouble of setting up 'trust' > relationships etc. with rmt ? > > Any help - as usual, gratefully received... > > Regards, > > Karl Pielorz > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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