On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 06:05:54PM +0200, Henry Ficher wrote: > Geoff Shang wrote: > >First, thanks to everyone who made suggestions re incremental backups. > >I've not looked into every suggestion, but have so far decided to go > >with duplicity as it appears to take care of all the physical backup > >files so I don't need to know how it's all stored and how to get at a > >particular backed up file - it takes care of that for me. > > > >I've now hit a problem with SSH keys however. Duplicity needs to be > >able to conect via SSH without needing a password or passphrase, as > >there seems to be no way to specify it. At any rate, I want this to > >be automated. > > > >Since I'm new to the world of keys, I've done a bit of experimenting. > >I did have logins from my home machine to the target machine working > >properly at one stage. But then I tried setting it up from the > >machine to be backed up and found that it always wanted the > >passphrase, and now my home machine does too. > Hi Geoff, > > Google for SSH in batch mode.
I can specifically recommend keychain, and the 3 articles during which it was written. -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
