Subject: Re: Automatic Remote File Transfer
From: KSchneider (krs@ferocitydesign.com)
Date: Fri Oct 03 2003 - 12:41:05 AKDT
Thank you. This is precisely the route I'm going to take.
Kate
At 12:19 PM 10/3/2003, Jamie Hushower wrote:
>I use scp for a lot of trivial backup jobs. You can enter the public ssh key
>of the requesting computer into the "~/.ssh/authorized_keys" file on the
>target to alleviate the need for entering a password. Be careful with adding
>authorized keys. You might want to create a special user with access only to
>the files that need to be backed up and ssh from that account (ssh -l
>username or ssh username@host.domain). You can create a file that contains
>your public key by running "ssh-keygen -t dsa" from ~/.ssh. Copy the
>contents to the "authorized_keys" file on the host computer. Make sure you
>copy the public key and not the private. Take a look at Unison (search
>Google) for a good implementation of using scp for backup or
>synchronization.
>
>-Jamie
>_____________________________________
>Jamie Hushower
>Computer Consultant
>Rent-A-Geek
>223-9136
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "KSchneider" <krs@ferocitydesign.com>
>To: <aklug@aklug.org>
>Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 11:35 AM
>Subject: Automatic Remote File Transfer
>
>
> >
> > Hi there --
> >
> > I'm attempting to compose a very basic shell script to send a file from
>one
> > server to another (remote backup) that will be automated. Naturally,
>there
> > are decent security measures in place, so I can't just use ftp (nor would
>I
> > want to). scp doesn't seem to have a password argument, so are there any
> > common practices for this? What do you folks do for remote backup?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kate
> >
> >
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