Re: Backups; the dumbest question in the world

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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 08:02:36 +0000 (UTC)

Panties on me gaelic haed! <BeenAround@butveryquiet.org> wrote:
> Ok, I've got an automated backup question that is likely very easy...

> I have a number of FreeBSD and OpenBSD boxes running in production.
> Backing the stuff up that I need to backup (RRDtool stats, web server
> content, etc) is easy; I use a simple script that does a 'tar zcvf
> xxx.tar.gz' thing and appends the backup date to the gzipped tar file.
> However, these machines have no connected tape/ZIP drives for additional
> backup.

> The data I'm backing up is VERY important; it CANNNOT be lost. However, I
> work in a mostly Sun Solaris workplace with a very large NIS+/LDAP auth
> environment. This is a problem...

> My regular home dir that I use on my Linux workstation lives on a Solaris 9
> box that gets backed up to tape regularly. This works well as Linux
> supports a PAM/LDAP auth scheme.

> However, the auth situation is such that I can't do an NFS mount of the BSD
> boxen and have them read by the right users for backup purposes. Since
> OpenBSD doesn't support PAM at all, and my 4.x FreeBSD boxes don't use
> nsswitch, I've been forced into having to remember to 'manually' copy my
> backups weekly to one of the Sun boxes that get tape-backedup.

> Does anyone have any kind of solution to this?

A few comments: "tar" is an archive & exchange tool",
 backup is done using "dump". Learn to use dump / restore

Copying the savesets might be as easy as rsh/ssh -l user ;
dump 0uaf - / | gzip | ssh -l (userid) (name-of-solaris-box) "cat > (nameofsavedfileset)"

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