From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Dec 9 01:06:23 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B1339D59D2; Wed, 9 Dec 2015 01:06:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gmx@ross.cx) Received: from www81.your-server.de (www81.your-server.de [213.133.104.81]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 051A41616; Wed, 9 Dec 2015 01:06:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gmx@ross.cx) Received: from [24.134.33.72] (helo=workstation) by www81.your-server.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1a6TD2-0007Ik-UA; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 02:06:20 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: "Patrick Hess" , dweimer Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Synchronizing directory hierarchies via SFTP References: <13761006.QDN0LtKzYl@desk8.phess.net> <5263162.JaugYyUJYb@desk8.phess.net> <24246596.8z5VK3yfqz@desk8.phess.net> <44daceeebc9b2997663a88e485b83df9@dweimer.net> Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2015 02:06:21 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Michael Ross" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <44daceeebc9b2997663a88e485b83df9@dweimer.net> User-Agent: Opera Mail/1.0 (Win32) X-Authenticated-Sender: gmx@ross.cx X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (ClamAV 0.98.7/21143/Tue Dec 8 22:35:26 2015) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2015 01:06:23 -0000 Am .12.2015, 01:25 Uhr, schrieb dweimer : > On 2015-12-08 6:13 pm, Patrick Hess wrote: >> Michael Ross wrote: >>> Am .12.2015, 00:43 Uhr, schrieb Patrick Hess : >>> > Just came across LFTP, http://lftp.yar.ru. According to the feature >>> list, >>> > it has support for SFTP and also comes with a "built-in mirror and >>> > reverse mirror" option. >>> lftp is used a lot here to mirror directories via sftp. Would >>> recommend. >> Tried it today, works like a charm. In comparison to csync, I noticed >> that the initial directory traversal in particular is a lot faster >> with LFTP. And since there's still a big question mark behind sshfs >> regarding its stability on FreeBSD, I'll just settle for LFTP and >> call it a day. >> >>> Check out the fine-tuning available with "set -a". >> Wow, that's a lot of stuff to mess up... Maybe some other day. >> So far, the defaults seem to work just fine for me. >> Patrick >> PS: Here's the quick'n'dirty Expect script I hacked together, >> in case someone has a use for it. >> _______________________________________________________________________ >> expect -c ' >> set timeout -1; >> spawn lftp -u '"$SFTP_USERNAME"' sftp://'"$SFTP_SERVER"'; >> expect "Passwor\[dt\]:"; >> send "'"$SFTP_PASSWORD"'\r"; >> expect "lftp *> "; >> send "mirror -v --reverse --dereference --delete --overwrite >> --exclude-glob *.swp '"$LOCAL_DIR"' '"$REMOTE_DIR"'\r" >> expect "lftp *> "; >> send "quit\r"; >> expect eof; >> ' >> _______________________________________________________________________ >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > I am not familiar with lftp, so it may not have support for it, but if > it were me doing this, I would look into using public/private OpenSSH > key pairs instead of sending the password with the expect script. > lftp just calls out to the system ssh binary, so you can do that via sftp:connect-program "ssh -a -x -i yourprivatekeyfile" Courtesy of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11577090/lftp-with-key-passphrase Michael