Networker

Re: [Networker] NetWorker over SSH Tunnel?

2009-08-22 18:57:20
Subject: Re: [Networker] NetWorker over SSH Tunnel?
From: Davina Treiber <Davina.Treiber AT PEEVRO.CO DOT UK>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:50:04 +0100
Anacreo wrote:
> Well I agree I ran into all the problems you're discussing Davina which is
> why I farmed it out to the group.  I didn't know about sshfs looks
> interesting but not sure it would work with the maintstream OS'es like
> Solaris...
> 
> We ended up doing an ssh out and do a backup via dd as well as a tar.  So we
> can archive this guy off and have a fully recoverable version as well as
> easy file level recovery.  It would be nice if NetWorker had a remote client
> capable of delivering backups via an https stream or so.. oh well.
> 

No, I hadn't heard of sshfs either. If it's similar to NFS or CIFS it
might be a great solution to your requirement. I am going to look into
it myself, could be useful for many things.

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