Remote backups using ssh and dump

[mike at sentex.net]

On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:59:27 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:

>Has anyone done this?

Hi,
	Yes, we use something like the following



#!/bin/sh


if [ -z $1 ] ; then
        echo ""
        echo "Usage: $0 <backup level>"
        echo "       See 'man dump' for more information."
        echo ""
        exit 255
fi

BACKUP_LEVEL=0
BACKUP_LEVEL=$1


/sbin/dump -C24 -${BACKUP_LEVEL}anuf - / | /usr/bin/gzip -7 |
/usr/bin/ssh -2 -c 3des backupuser at example.com dd
of=/path/to/dump/dump-myfifle-root-l${BACKUP_LEVEL}.gz


	---Mike