You can do a tar pipe via ssh, which may be a little slow, but you'll be
waiting in the tape drive anyway. You can say something like this...
tar -czpvv / - | ssh host2.domain.com -l root 'cat > /dev/tape'
Would tarball your entire file tree, dump that to stdout, which is piped
to ssh and encrypted to the other hosts, which is piped to cat and dumped
to /dev/tape. That is the easiest and most secure way to do it. Every
other way relies on hostname-based authentication which is very very bad.
-CJO-
C.J. Oster (Linux Guru/Surge Addict)
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On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Tim wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I just set up a scsi tape drive on my second Linux box (Red Hat Linux
> release 5.1 (Manhattan) Kernel 2.0.34 on an i486) and it's working fine.
> Unfortunately it's the slower box with less memory, anyway....what is the
> best way to do remote backups so that I can back up my main Linux box. I
> don't have room for the SCSI adapter in it, but I'd like to get it backed
> up with this new drive.
>
> Info: wallybox (no tape drive) wallybox2 (scsi tape drive)
>
> I know that I can use something like the --file [HOSTNAME:]F option using
> tar, but I've been using KBackup, and I kind of like it. Is there anyway
> to use this to backup wallybox and still keep all the symlinks and
> permissions on the files?
>
> Any and all help and/or suggestions welcomed. I'm willing to try anything
> at least once. :)
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Tim
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