Re: [Dump-users] dump over a network

[Kenneth P. <sh...@se...>]

--On Wednesday, September 19, 2007 1:13 PM +0200 Helmut Jarausch 
<jar...@ig...> wrote:

> I'm piping dump's output via (e.g.) ttcp over the network to my server.
>
> Now I'd like to put the "Quick File Access" file generated by the option
> -Q on the server as well.
> Has anybody tried that? Probably I have to do it via a named pipe.

I just back up to a Samba mount, a removable USB drive on a neighboring 
Windows server. The drive is FAT32 so it can't handle files bigger than 2 
GB. As a result, I use the -M option to split the backup into 1 GB chunks.