[K12OSN] Emergency network backup using STAR && ssh

[Burke Almquist]

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You might also use rsync over ssh or sftp instead of using NFS over the 
internet.

On Aug 13, 2004, at 12:54 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 09:15, Henry Burroughs wrote:
>> For the moment, Coastal South Carolina (and coastal Georgia) are on
>> the predicted path for Hurricane Charley.  Not knowing what strength
>> it will be after hitting Tampa Bay, FL (which is where Eckerd College
>> www.eckerd.edu, the college I graduated from is situated right on the
>> water... it'll be covered by possibly 10 ft surges from the 110 mph
>> storm), I am trying to backup some of the teacher's PCs (unfortunately
>> I don't have Amanda or any other network backup software operating on
>> those PCs b/c of a shortage of network filespace).  Also on that list
>> is my own system, which I need to backup about 15 gigs to a remote
>> tape drive (which I have backed that server up using good ole DUMP).
>> My system is running Linux, and I have STAR installed, which should be
>> able to use ssh.  Otherwise, I'll have to get rsh installed and
>>  configured for running DUMP.   Anyone gotten STAR operating via ssh?
>
> Star has it's own concept of remote access using host:/device notation
> and you need it's version of rmt configured on the tape host.  If
> you don't already have that set up and star installed on all the
> remotes, it would probably be faster to NFS export the other
> boxes filesystems to your tape machine, mount them and tar them
> up like they were local with star or gnutar.   Or you can do
> a brute force ssh from either end tarring to stdout:
> from tape host:
>   ssh root at remote "cd / ; tar cf - . " |dd of=/dev/nst0
> from remote:
>  cd /
>  tar cf - . | ssh root at tapehost dd of=/dev/nst0
> (Actually I prefer to cd to the top of each filesystem separately
> and add --one-file-system to the gnutar command. I think star
> limits itself to one filesystem by default).
>
> If the remotes are windows boxes and you have access to
> the admin accounts you can use smbtar, something like
> (untested..):
> smbtar -s server -x 'C$' -u Administrator  -t /dev/nst0
> the 'C$' is the hidden admin share for the C drive (do them all...)
> and needs the single quote to protect the $ from shell expansion.
> It should prompt for the administrator password or you can
> add a -p password to the command line.  Smbtar is a shell wrapper
> for smbclient so you can use smbclient directly for more interactive
> access to the machine but note that the options are specified
> differently.
>
> ---
>   Les Mikesell
>     les at futuresource.com
>
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