Re: [cobalt-users] backing-up using rsync+ssh

[Jay Summers <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> I am preparing a raq3 server as a back-up server for another raq3 server
>> using rsync+ssh.
>> 
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>> 
>> Anybody is using this method?
>> Or is there any better method?

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> I am just beginning to work out this method. I had made a comment about
> backing up MySQL databases using mysqldump a day or two ago.
> 
> I have just recently managed to gert rsync + ssh working. I had great
> difficulty testing over a firewall! Now that I have it working, could you
> tell me how to get it to work in a script without having ssh on the other
> end asking for a password? I have created an rsync.scrt file. Would I maybe
> have permissions set incorrectly on that?

These instructions from the Rsync Faq helped me.

http://rsync.samba.org/rsync/fom-serve/cache/12.html

HTH,
j

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