Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 03:03:12 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Sparky <mark@itsunix.uwc.ac.za> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Backups Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912010258200.4557-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <3844DCD2.32EFD7E5@itsunix.uwc.ac.za>
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On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Sparky wrote: > Hello.... > > Can anyone help me? > I want to do backups of 4 machines to a backup server ( all running > Unix ) > > machine 1 LINUX REDHAT 6 > machine 2 SOLARIS 2.6 > machine 3 FREEBSD > machine 4 LINUX REDHAT 6 > backup FREEBSD > > The idea is to use the crontab daemon to scp the machines necessary > files to the backup server, > and then for the backup server to....well of course back them up. > > The first question is : > > 1) Is this way correct. > 2) How do I get the backup to accecpt scp connections without a > password from only those machines. > 3) How to set up the crontab file on the machines to perform the > sending tasks. > > I have tried to edit the sshd config files....but no luck. > I have also tried some tests with crontab file ..... no luck. > > Note: You might wonder why I am asking these questions......well > actually I am new to UNIX aprox 4 weeks. So all the advice would be > appreciated. Actually this is a side project i've been working on in my spare time, meaning I haven't got passed the thinking about it stage. :) The way I was going to do it is remarkably similar, the problem you're having with ssh is that it won't take a password from stdin. A trick I came up with is to start an ssh-agent, ssh-add which enters keys into the agent will take a passphrase on stdin if you pass it a -p flag. You can then stick a generated key into the remote backup user's $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys. Read up on ssh-agent it should be a good start. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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