remotly backup

[Dushyant Tyagi]

hi all
i have 2 linux servers. i want to take
the remotly backup.is it possable. if
yes plz tell me which command i should
use.let me tell u our servers name .
hostname is samteldomain and remote
server is sedgzbd.

plz help me
thanx
Dushyant

[Roberto Polli]

- How do you want to bkup?
- Do you have a tape or you want to use a remote dir?

surely
info tar
or
man tar will help

Peace, R.


PS Pls check on how to assign points to correct answers: http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33

[V.Tamilvanan]

Hi,
Make both the system trusted by adding the entries in .rhosts file.


Then you can do remote backup by below comand

tar cvf - /dir/dbfile1 | remsh target dd of=/dev/rct0

See the below link:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=569830

[Roberto Polli]

Hi Tamil.
For hp-ux your solution is ok.

On linux you have to use rsh instead of remsh.
You can specify a network path for bkup

eg. from storage server

#tar cfz[p] bkuphost:/path/to/tarfile.tar.gz /path/to/bkupdir

or, with bzip2
#tar cfj[p] bkuphost:/path/to/tarfile.tar.bz2 /path/to/bkupdir

sure you have to configure pam for rhosts authentication (you can search on this forum how to do it)

Peace, R.

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

And if you do want this all with a nice framework and driven by configurations, have a look at Amanda:

http://www.amanda.org/

HTH,

Martin

[Kiyoshi Miyake]

How about rsync.
Please see man page of rsync.

[Paul Cross_1]

what ever happened to good old dump???

/sbin/dump -0u -f /dev/st0 backuphost:/dev/rmt0

[Paul Cross_1]

screwed that up... let me try that again:

/sbin/dump -0u -f backuphost:/dev/rmt0 /