Dumping to another servers tape drive

[Wayne Leutwyler]

On Oct 4, 2004, at 6:04 PM, Douglas Phillipson wrote:

> I run:
>
>
> /sbin/dump -0uf - /dev/sda9 | ssh rsldata 'dd of=/dev/nst0'
>
> It seems to go to the tape fine.  Then on rsldata I run:
>
>
> /sbin/restore -if /dev/nst0
>
> I get the error:
>
> /sbin/restore: Tape block size (512) is not a multiple of dump block 
> size (1024)
>
> I've setup ssh so as to not require a password for sshing to rsldata.
>
> I try to adjust block sizes in both "dd" and restore to no avail.  Any 
> idea what I'm doing wrong?  This typically works fine on Unix 
> (Solaris) but not Fedora.
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug P
>
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Have you looked at Amanda? www.amanda.org

This might do what you are looking to do.

Wayne Leutwyler, RHCT
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