Re: IDE backup on single host (was: Re: Software backup)

2002-10-24 Thread Marcin Sochacki
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:30:19AM +0300, Jarno Elonen wrote: Does anyone know any way to make this more difficult without introducing a remote host? Are there, for example, any Linux kernel options for device access passwords or such? Maybe removing the appropriate /dev/hd* entries after

Re: IDE backup on single host (was: Re: Software backup)

2002-10-24 Thread Marcin Sochacki
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:15:05PM +0300, Jarno Elonen wrote: Does anyone know any way to make this more difficult without introducing a remote host? Are there, for example, any Linux kernel options for device access passwords or such? Maybe removing the appropriate /dev/hd* entries

Re: IDE backup on single host (was: Re: Software backup)

2002-10-24 Thread Jarno Elonen
Does anyone know any way to make this more difficult without introducing a remote host? Are there, for example, any Linux kernel options for device access passwords or such? Maybe removing the appropriate /dev/hd* entries after backup, and recreating them just before backup with mknod.

Re: IDE backup on single host (was: Re: Software backup)

2002-10-24 Thread Jarno Elonen
Ingenious. :b Does it work reliably with devfs? (So that devices don't magically reappear after deletion, for example)? I can hear sarcasm in your words, Not at all - except towards my own stupidity for not even thinking of such a simple solution. :) The follow-up question was just

IDE backup on single host (was: Re: Software backup)

2002-10-24 Thread Jarno Elonen
We're using rsync to mirror a hot drive in our main server to a cold drive (one that is only mounted when backing up, and is briefly mounted read only for per file restoration). ...which reminds me of a related problem of mine. On my own system, I'm using a fixed spare IDE hard drive for

Re: IDE backup on single host (was: Re: Software backup)

2002-10-24 Thread Marcin Sochacki
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:30:19AM +0300, Jarno Elonen wrote: Does anyone know any way to make this more difficult without introducing a remote host? Are there, for example, any Linux kernel options for device access passwords or such? Maybe removing the appropriate /dev/hd* entries after

Re: IDE backup on single host (was: Re: Software backup)

2002-10-24 Thread Jarno Elonen
Does anyone know any way to make this more difficult without introducing a remote host? Are there, for example, any Linux kernel options for device access passwords or such? Maybe removing the appropriate /dev/hd* entries after backup, and recreating them just before backup with mknod.

Re: IDE backup on single host (was: Re: Software backup)

2002-10-24 Thread Marcin Sochacki
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:15:05PM +0300, Jarno Elonen wrote: Does anyone know any way to make this more difficult without introducing a remote host? Are there, for example, any Linux kernel options for device access passwords or such? Maybe removing the appropriate /dev/hd* entries

Re: IDE backup on single host (was: Re: Software backup)

2002-10-24 Thread Jarno Elonen
Ingenious. :b Does it work reliably with devfs? (So that devices don't magically reappear after deletion, for example)? I can hear sarcasm in your words, Not at all - except towards my own stupidity for not even thinking of such a simple solution. :) The follow-up question was just