I would like to backup my server to a firewire drive connected to a
Macintosh Mini. Both machines are on my local network and, of course, behind
a secure firewall.
Right now I'm using this script to take backups:
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/dump -0uanL -f - / | gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish [EMAIL
Mike Loiterman wrote:
[ ... ]
This is working fine, but I have to run the script mannually and enter the
password.
So my question are these:
1. Is there any other way of doing this so that I would not have to deal
with the password issue from ssh? This is all taking place behind a secure
Mike Loiterman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to backup my server to a firewire drive
connected to a Macintosh Mini. Both machines are on my local
network and, of course, behind a secure firewall.
Right now I'm using this script to take backups:
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/dump
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Mike Loiterman
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 8:17 AM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: RE: Help backing up to networked drive
Mike Loiterman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to backup my server to a firewire drive
For those that are interested this is how got things to work:
On the Mac Mini I edited /etc/smb.conf and put in this:
[backup]
path = /Volumes/Server-Backup
writeable = yes
Then I restarted Windows File Sharing by going to System
Preferences-Sharing and then turning off Windows
