Re: [cobalt-users] Rsync Setup Question

[Dmitry Alexeyev <dmi_a@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Never used this piece of software, but people recommend it. 
It uses rsync and ssh 
http://folk.uio.no/johnen/bontmia/

WBR,
Dmitry
> Read the archives, Google'd to death and read the man pages on Rsync.
> Maybe it's a little over my head here.
>
> I downloaded Bruce's Rsync packages, they installed fine, daemon is
> showing as running and created the /etc/rsyncd.motd,
> /etc/rsyncd.conf, /etc/rsyncd.scrt files and believe we have the
> correct information in them.
>
> We run a cron job to tar up /home/mysql/var and then we installed
> rsync on our Debian server that is set aside as the backup server
> which we then pull down backup from once a week to a CD burner on our
> Mac inside the LAN.
>
> I can get the rsync to run and pull the files from our Raq4's as it
> should but when running the command;
>
> Rsync -e ssh -a 1ocean1.webpresencegroup.net:/home/rsync-mysql/
> /home/rsync-backup/
>
> All goes well except that I have to enter a password as the
> root/admin.
>
> To place this in a cron won't work like this I am thinking, I read up
> on the creation of new ssh keys, but that is where it gets fuzzy.
> Anyone one have a laymen's how-to for us remedial folks :)
>
> I am burnt on learning this last month with
> sendmail/MailScanner/SpamAssassin stuff and was hoping for a easy
> how-to for a change:))
>
>
> Anyone ??