Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 08:53:53 +0200 From: Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lc-words.com> To: Eric Zimmerman <heli@mikestammer.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump and remote file fetching Message-ID: <483D0181.5010605@lc-words.com> In-Reply-To: <483C87F0.9030803@mikestammer.com> References: <483C8060.2070003@lc-words.com> <483C87F0.9030803@mikestammer.com>
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Hi there, >> Need a word of advice. I use dump to backup my data. All fine. Dump >> saves compressed *.bz2 files. Nice. All I need now is a way to copy them >> from the server to a remote backup machine. The problem I am facing is >> that bz2 files are owned by root:wheel. So if I use scp >> user@domain.tld:/path/to/*.bz2, it does not have sufficient permissions >> to fetch the files. I can use sudo, but then I need to interactively >> type the password, which I would like to avoid. >> >> Can you suggest simple ways of getting around this? I don't mind using >> special tools for the job, especially if they are not too complicated... :) >> >> Before firing this email off I took a look at rsync and it seems easy >> enough to do just what I need but still many thanks for suggestions! > > I have been very happy with rsnapshot. Take that for a spin and see how > it works for you I have taken a look at rsnapshot but it seems I am left to deal with the same problem: From their page: In addition to full paths on the local filesystem, you can also backup remote systems using rsync over ssh. If you have ssh installed and enabled (via the cmd_ssh parameter), you can specify a path like: backup root@example.com:/etc/ example.com/ This behaves fundamentally the same way, but you must take a few extra things into account. a/ The ssh daemon must be running on example.com b/ You must have access to the account you specify the remote machine, in this case the root user on example.com. I do not allow remote root login so what are my options in that case? How do you deal with such a scenario? Many thanks! -- Zbigniew Szalbot www.lc-words.com
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