This one time, at band camp, Skylar Thompson wrote: >On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:09:42PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >> >> Because the database being dumped is not on the machine that runs amdump, >> and adding another RPC that duplicates the one already in amanda is >> unjustifiable. > >It would be a bit of a hack, but if you're already writing a shell script >you could use some kind of passworldess SSH system (public keys or >otherwise) that would login to the amdump machine and do a dump of the >database.
Yes. Currently, we have somethign that works good enough. If I wanted to make it better, I'd do it right rather than add another hack, I think that would be a much better investment of time. But thanks for your advice.
