Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:37:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Unattended remote backups via ssh??? Message-ID: <20010904163035.V61494-100000@teak.adhesivemedia.com>
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Hi - I was hoping someone could point me in the general direction of a tutorial that will help me with the following scenerio which must be common, but I can't seem to find the answer today... I have a server with a tape drive behind a firewall. I have several machines outside the firewall that need backing up. When they were all behind the firewall I would use rsync to mirror the files I wanted backed up to the server and then dump that to tape. I'd like to keep that same plan, but I need to run rsync over ssh. And as far as I can tell it needs to run as root so that it can read all the right files... Which means I need to let root ssh into each of the outside servers... which doesn't seem very secure... I also don't want to have to be around when I do it to type in a password... any pointers? advice? thanks! -philip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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