Mike Loiterman <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to backup my server to a firewire drive > connected to a Macintosh Mini. Both machines are on my local > network and, of course, behind a secure firewall. > > Right now I'm using this script to take backups: > > #!/bin/sh > > /sbin/dump -0uanL -f - / | gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd of=/Volumes/Server-Backup/dump-root.gz && \ > /sbin/dump -0uanL -f - /tmp | gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd of=/Volumes/Server-Backup/dump-tmp.gz && \ > /sbin/dump -0uanL -f - /usr | gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd of=/Volumes/Server-Backup/dump-usr.gz && \ > /sbin/dump -0uanL -f - /var | gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd of=/Volumes/Server-Backup/dump-var.gz > > This is working fine, but I have to run the script mannually > and enter the password. > > So my question are these: > 1. Is there any other way of doing this so that I would not > have to deal with the password issue from ssh? This is all > taking place behind a secure firewall on my local network, so > ssh is probably not necessary. > > 2. How can I use samba to mount the Mini's drive? > mount_smbfs would only see the home share belonging to the > user I was logging in with and not the /Volume directory on > the Mac. Sym-links from the users /home to /Volumes didn't > work correctly. How can I access the drives in /Volumes via samba?
Actually, I take it back. The original script doesn't work. dd gives an error when I try to backup /usr saying that the file is too large...it dies at 4GB. ------------------------------ Mike Loiterman grantADLER Tel: 630-302-4944 Fax: 773-442-0992 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: 0xD1B9D18E _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"