XFS dump & restore

[Net Llama!]

On 05/29/03 19:26, Andrew Mathews wrote:
> | Does anyone know if its possible to pipe a file from xfsdump via the
> | output from scp into xfsrestore?
> |
> 
> Sure is. If you have passwordless ssh enabled between the two systems
> you don't even need to include username and password in the pipe. I
> backup my laptop that I'm writing this from every night over a wireless
> network to a system with 2 tape drives. Something like:
> xfsdump -l 0 - / | ssh hostname xfsrestore - /tmp

excellent, thanks.  so i've got this running right now.  oddly though, 
the ownership of the files/dirs on the remote end is not matching up 
with the originals.  is this normal & expected?  for example, stuff in 
various user's $HOME is showing a UID# of 0 for alot of entries, which 
isn't even close to correct.  I see that xfsrestore has a -o option 
which is supposed to restore file and dir owner/group info, but i didn't 
know if that was needed for the original dump.

At any rate, this is the command that i used for the dump:
xfsdump -p 4 -l 0 - / | ssh 10.0.0.1 xfsrestore - /tmp/llama/

Would this work for doing the xfsrestore using ssh/scp:
ssh hostname xfsdump - /tmp/llama/ | xfsrestore - /

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