Dumping to another servers tape drive
Douglas Phillipson
dougp at intermind.net
Tue Oct 5 15:49:55 UTC 2004
Wayne Leutwyler wrote:
>
> On Oct 4, 2004, at 6:04 PM, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
>
>> I run:
>>
>>
>> /sbin/dump -0uf - /dev/sda9 | ssh rsldata 'dd of=/dev/nst0'
>>
>> It seems to go to the tape fine. Then on rsldata I run:
>>
>>
>> /sbin/restore -if /dev/nst0
>>
>> I get the error:
>>
>> /sbin/restore: Tape block size (512) is not a multiple of dump block
>> size (1024)
>>
>> I've setup ssh so as to not require a password for sshing to rsldata.
>>
>> I try to adjust block sizes in both "dd" and restore to no avail. Any
>> idea what I'm doing wrong? This typically works fine on Unix
>> (Solaris) but not Fedora.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Doug P
>>
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>
> Have you looked at Amanda? www.amanda.org
>
> This might do what you are looking to do.
>
Thanks but I'm really just trying to get a dump of the machine prior to
an upgrade. So I could still use some help with my question.
Thanks
Doug P
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