You can fire it up - and then just walk away.  Make a pot of coffee.
Make 2. Sleep on it.  When you get up, brush your teeth slowly.

Takes quite a while.

One issue though with backing something up and then FTP'ing it, is the
limited storage on the MobilePro to begin with.  You've got to have room
for that tarfile or dump before sending it on it's way.  Unless you are
just FTP'ing individual files of course.  But for a full backup?????

> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-hpcmips-owner@NetBSD.org 
> [mailto:port-hpcmips-owner@NetBSD.org] On Behalf Of ROC
> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 10:25 PM
> To: port-hpcmips@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: FYI - An interesting method to backup your system
> 
> 
> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> 
> >On 08/19 04:04 , Tim Underwood wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>cd /
> >>tar -cvzf - * | ssh <targetsystem> -l <userid> dd of=backupfile.tgz
> >>
> >>One of those things that's completely logical, but I hadn't 
> thought of 
> >>before.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >yep. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world when someone 
> >pointed that one out to me. I usually do it slightly 
> differently (ssh 
> >from the backing-up host to the client, then tar there, 
> piping it back 
> >down to a local dd or tar client); but the concept is the same.
> >
> >for a fancier way to back up your system, which handles laptops with 
> >aplomb and gives you a nice web-based GUI for restores, I heartily 
> >recommend BackupPC (backuppc.sf.net). It just uses rsync and ssh to 
> >back up anything that can accept an rsync or ssh connection. 
> niftiest 
> >thing I've seen in ages; and the developer is a really great 
> & helpful 
> >guy.
> >
> >  
> >
> The tar/ssh is good for secure copies, but, on Solaris at 
> least, I found 
> it to take about 10 times longer (probably due to all the 
> pipelining/encrypting/decrypting/network handshaking? ) than straight 
> FTP, so not a good option for lots of data (i.e. over a few 
> dozen MB or 
> so) if time is any kind of issue.  And since that was on 
> 100Mb Ethernet 
> with Gigabit backbone between Enterprise class UltraSPARC servers, I 
> suspect a MobilePro with 10Mb ethernet card (can't use the 
> 100Mb cardbus 
> cards, right?) would be another 10 times slower or so due to the NIC 
> speed, and that does not factor in the ssh load on that 
> little ol'  MIPS 
> processor at 168 Mhz compared to dual or quad 400 Mhz 
> UltraSPARC cpu's, 
> and  2-4GB of  RAM...
> 
> Anyone done any timings?
> 
> -- 
> FWIW
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