tarring a file to a remote tape device via ssh

[Andrew Kaplan]

Hi there --

I would like to run a tar backup on a linux system and have the backup occur on a remote system's tape drive, in this case hp-ux 10.20, via ssh. Is this possible, and if so, what is the correct syntax. FYI -- I have set up public and private keys between the two systems, and the account in question has automatic authentication set up.

[Ivan Ferreira]

The syntax should be something like this:

localhost> tar cvf - /path_to_files | ssh remotehost dd of=/dev/rmt/0m

localhost> ssh remotehost dd if=/dev/rmt/0m | tar tvf -


You can try different block sizes in the command to try to get better performance.

[Alan_152]

any particular reason you want to use tar instead of rdump?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Unless have a product like Veritas netbackup making the tape drive shareable, you must transfer the file and then back i tup.

scp -p filename servername:/tmp
ssh servername "tar cv *"
The asterisk is the fileset to be archived.

This can be done password free by exchanging public keys.

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