On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Lord Sporkton <lordsporkton AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> I'm aware of zmanda and several other backup options however at this time
> this is what we have and this is what we are trying to leverage. Perhaps it
> will turn out that writing to a flat file is the only option. But the nature
> of the backuppc commands leads me to believe there is some possibility to
> link streams. mysqldump streams into a file and backuppc "appears" to stream
> from the local file, across the tunnel. This leads me to believe(and i could
> of course be wrong due to some caveat that Im simply not aware of yet) that
> If i could redirect backuppc to stream from a stream rather than file, i
> could get it to work. Tar is of course capable of accepting either stream or
> file as input and mysqldump is capable of outputing to either stream or
> file. I suppose I will just have to play around with it more maybe.

I don't think you are going to find a way to get backuppc to collect
the output stream directly.  However you could use disk space on
another machine for the intermediate file copy, using either a pipe
over ssh or an nfs mount  and let backuppc pick it up from there.

--
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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