[H-GEN] Backup

[Anthony Towns]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:34:03PM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] David Seikel wrote:
> > I've recently heard of piping dd through a TFTP client (lfs support
> > needed).  There is a remote backup HOWTO as part of the LDP.
> I've heard of piping dd through ssh (although I prefer to use cat over ssh
> or just scp) but dd over tftp?!?!  I feel that is a bit twisted ;)

I often use dd when I'm copying between remote machines, a la:

$ ssh foo cat foo.txt | ssh bar dd of=bar.txt

Using scp will often try ssh'ing to bar from foo, which often annoys me (due
to restricted agent forwarding, or just plain not having foo know that "bar"
is actually bar.baz.com).

And obviously,

$ ssh foo cat foo.txt | ssh bar cat > bar.txt 

isn't going to work too well.

Cheers,
aj

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