[ale] Piping dump to ssh

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Wed Jun 23 08:28:25 EDT 2004


Jonathan Glass wrote:
>>Kevin O'Neill Stoll wrote:
>>
>>>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"
>>
>>Try:
>>
>>/sbin/dump 0uf - /var | ssh backup-box
>>"cat /path/to/backups/filename.dump"
>>
>>--
> 
> 
> Wouldn't that result in dump sending output to stdout, and cat sending
> output to stdout?  Where do you redirect dump's stdout to a file?

True, typo:


/sbin/dump 0uf - /var | ssh backup-box
"cat > /path/to/backups/filename.dump"

I do something similar in backing up various boxes via tar.

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