[KLUG Members] backing up to remote tape drive

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I have a Suse 9.3 box with a tight firewall that only allows inbound ssh
> and limited outbound. I need to backup ~300GB to a tape drive on another
> computer. I regularly backup 160GB of compressed files locally to the
> tape. I tried to find the proper way to backup the Suse box to it, but
> it doesn't seem to be working right.
> I ussually do a du -shc <directorys> to get ~<160GB of files and then
> give them to a tar -cvf /dev/st2 <directorys> to back them up.
> For the remote backup I did the du -shc and then the command:
> tar --label=ARCHIVE-01-23-2006 -cv -f - b 20 <directorys> | ssh
> user at remote 'dd of=/dev/st2 obs=20b'
> However, It said device full about 20GB shy of the 160GB set.
> What could have went wrong? Is there a better way to do this?
> Ideally I want to use the verify option.

Use "star" and its enhanced RMT.  It can automatically exec the remote
tape server over an SSH tunnel.
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