Dumping to another servers tape drive

[Douglas Phillipson]

Wayne Leutwyler wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Thanks but I'm really just trying to get a dump of the machine prior to 
an upgrade.  So I could still use some help with my question.

Thanks

Doug P