Backing up over network

[Jurvis LaSalle]

On Mar 3, 2004, at 2:02 AM, Michael Hamam wrote:

> The easiest way to do remote backup as follows;
>
>         1-export the filesystem on pike to bearclaw
>         2-mount the exported filesystem on bearclaw
>         3-use tar dump ...ETC to backup the exported filesystem.
>
> Best Regards
> MH
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gerry Doris" <gdoris at rogers.com>
> To: <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 8:08 PM
> Subject: Re: Backing up over network
>
>
>>> Greetings!
>>>
>>> I have 2 RedHat boxen, One is RH 9.0 with SCSI DDS3 tape drive
> (we'll name
>>> it bearclaw).  The other is RH 8.0, with 100 GB IDE drive(named
> pike).
>>>
>>> Pike has ~41 gig of MP3's on his drive.  I want to back them up to
>>> Bearclaw's DDS3 drive.
>>>
>>> What is the easiest way to do this?  Will dd work?  It's my
> understanding
>>> that dd does not support tape spanning.  I have 12gig (native)
> tapes, so
>>> I'll need to span accross about 4 tapes, to get it all.
>>>
>>> Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Brian
>>
>> If you want to do to tape then I suggest either Amanda or Arkeia.
>> Although Arkeia is a commercial product they do provide a "Light"
> version
>> that is limited to a server plus two clients.  I've used it and it
> works
>> well.
>>
>>
>> Gerry
>>
>>

Have you compared this performance-wise to tar -zcf 
remotehost:/dev/tapedrive or dump -0uf remotehost:/dev/tapedrive ?

Jurvis LaSalle