[nycbug-talk] backup from bsd

[Rick Aliwalas]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, steve wrote:

> One of my jobs is using Veritas to do all their backups, the issue i have is 
> that veritas does not play nicely with fbsd, they only client they have (that 
> i found) didnt compile properly, and i can not rely on it, that it will 
> backup as required. So does anybody know of a way i can backup multiple 
> servers to a windows box, (say run a bacula server on windows (is it 
> possible?)) and from there veritas will take it to tape. Directly from bsd 
> servers to tape is not an option ( i did try) the ones in command dont want 
> it.

You could use DUMP(8) to remotely back up the BSD machines to a file
on a machine already getting backed by w/ Veritas.  You could even
wrapper w/ ssh.  Run this on a unix box that has lots of disk and
already gets dumped by Veritas:

    ssh -n BSDBOX /sbin/dump 0auf - / | dd of=/BIGFS/root.dmp
    ssh -n BSDBOX /sbin/dump 0auf - /usr | dd of=/BIGFS/usr.dmp
    ...

Of course if you don't have a unix server that gets backed up
by Veritas, then it's time to break out the cheese grater and
start shaving your head.  i.e. write the dump file to the local
disk and move the thing to a windoze machine w/ samba or ftp...

-rick