>Has anyone done this? >I'm presently using rsync over ssh, but I think dump would be better if it >will >work. I've been reading the man page, but I'm wondering if anyone is doing >this successfully and would like to share their cmdline.
Hi, [ from gopher://sdf-eu.org/00/users/mackie/Unix-Notes/_sdf-user-stuff.txt ] Backup home dir (from sdf) -------------------------- $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'tar cvf - html/* | gzip - > html.tgz' $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'tar cvf - gopher/* | gzip - > gopher.tgz' $ rsync -avz -e ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/arpa/m/mackie /home/mackie/SDF Backup home dir (to sdf) ------------------------ (dump) # dump -0f - /home | ssh -o 'EscapeChar none' [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat > home.fs" (restore) # cd /home && rcp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:home.fs home.fs && cat home.fs | restore -rf - HTH, Stuart -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
