[ale] Piping dump to ssh

Jonathan Glass jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
Wed Jun 23 07:56:04 EDT 2004


See correction inline:

> Hello all,
>
> I have been trying to get this working but am not sure how
> else to debug other than what I have already done.
>
> I want to pipe a dump through ssh straight to a backup box.
>
> /sbin/dump 0uf - /var | ssh backup-box
> "/path/to/backups/filename.dump"

/sbin/dump 0uf - /var | ssh backup-box "dd of=/path/to/file.dump"

> But when I do this dump tells me that I have a broken pipe.
> Just to be anal, I tested to make sure I could do just a
> plain dump; that works. And I also tested to make sure that
> I could copy that file over via ssh; that works fine.
> Anyway, I'm not sure what else to test or how else to
> troubleshoot to determine what's wrong.
>
> The initial idea that I was working off of is the
> following:
> tar -cvf - /path/to/backup | ssh B "cd
> /path/where/you/want/files; tar -xf -"
> This works fine.
>
> Ultimately, whatever the method, I am trying to push
> backups via ssh to a dedicated backup server. Any thoughts,
> ideas or improvements on how better to do this would be
> great.
>
> Thanks
>
> =====
> Kevin Stoll

Thanks
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Jonathan Glass
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