[ale] Piping dump to ssh

Jonathan Glass jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
Wed Jun 23 08:12:43 EDT 2004


> Kevin O'Neill Stoll wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have been trying to get this working but am not sure how
>> else to debug other than what I have already done.
>>
>> I want to pipe a dump through ssh straight to a backup box.
>>
>> /sbin/dump 0uf - /var | ssh backup-box
>> "/path/to/backups/filename.dump"
>
> Try:
>
> /sbin/dump 0uf - /var | ssh backup-box
> "cat /path/to/backups/filename.dump"
>
> --

Wouldn't that result in dump sending output to stdout, and cat sending
output to stdout?  Where do you redirect dump's stdout to a file?
-- 
Jonathan Glass
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