John R Pierce wrote:
# dump -0uv /dev/sda2 | ssh root@target -c "restore -rf - /mnt/var"
eeek. slight modification here...
# dump -0uvf - /dev/sda2 | ssh root@target -c "restore -rf - /mnt/var"
the -f - tells dump to write the dumpfile to stdout, much as the f - in the 'restore' command says to read the dump from stdin