[Dirvish] Setting up new backup

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2019, wes wrote:

> I think this is what is telling dirvish that it's a remote vault. However
> I am not sure what the correct term here would be. If you run the
> "hostname" command on your terminal, what do you get?

$ echo $HOSTNAME
salmo.appl-ecosys.com

> Also, if you run "ping almost.appl-ecosys.com" what does it say the IP
> address it's trying to reach is?

$ ping almost.appl-ecosys.com
ping: unknown host almost.appl-ecosys.com

>From howto-dirvish.html:

Defining default.conf
...
First, the client specifies the host target. client is the hostname, and
possibly username, necessary to access the filesystem on the target machine
specified by tree.

client: root at some.example.com

For example, the above client directive instructs Dirvish to use the system
named some as the target and connect as the root user. If you omit the user,
Dirvish will connect as the user running the dirvish binary, generally the
root user.

client: 192.168.25.1

As demonstrated above, you can also specify the IP address of the target
system.

Last, you must specify which path you want to backup with the tree
directive. Generally this will be aligned with a filesystem boundary, but
you can backup any path you wish.

client: root at sarah.example.com
tree: /
xdev: 0
index: gzip

Regards,

Rich