Re: [flexbackup-help] Remote restore

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Sebastien Prud'homme <pru...@la...> wrote:

> I use a server to backup itself and a remote server (with the
> help of ssh). Now i'd like to know how to restore files of the
> remote server directly on the remote server.

Sebastien

I also use Flexbackup in the same situation as you and there does not
appear to be a remote restore option.

If you have ssh working properly on both machines, that is you can ssh
to either machine from the other, then the following should work:

ssh into your remote machine and change to the remote directory that
you want to restore into.

Enter any mt commands to position the tape on your local machine by
using mt -f user@localmachine:/dev/tape <command> where user is the
user on your local machine, localmachine is your host name for that
machine and /dev/tape is the tape device name that you normally use.

Enter afio -i <any afio options here> user@localmachine:/dev/tape

You may get a 'broken pipe' error at the end of the process but it
appears to work for me.

You could try afio -t user@localmachine:/dev/tape first just to try it
out.

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Barry Samuels
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