Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> On Friday 23 April 2010 00:56:42 Saturn2888 wrote:
>> @Tyler J. Wagner
>> If it's confirmed Rsync works better than Rsyncd, I'll switch to it.
>>
>> The problem with SSH Rsync configurations is the public/private keys. I
>> seem to always have problems getting those setup, but I've recently not
>> had those problems so I can try that method, but I've never done it before
>> on Windows machines and will probably have great difficulty doing so.
>> DeltaCopy has an ssh.exe, but I believe that is only a client, not a
>> server. I do have PuTTY on some of the machines if that's helpful at all.
>
> I was referring to using rsync for Linux clients, not Windows. For the 1
> Windows server I archive, I use rsyncd. I have not even tried rsyncd on
> Linux.
>
> Setting up SSH keys is easy:
>
> On BackupPC server, as root:
Errr... On the backuppc side you want to do this as the backuppc user...
> ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t rsa
>
> Set no passphrase. Still on the server, do this for each client, entering
> that client's root password.
>
> ssh-copy-id -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub r...@client
>
> This is equivalent to copying /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub from the server to each
> client's /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file. Note that both .ssh and
> authorized_keys must be readable/writable/executable by the user only, not
> group/other.
But what you really want it /home/backuppc/.ssh/id_rsa.pub appended to each
remote's /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file (there could be other entries there
already).
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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