Re: time to come clean... .

2006-09-04 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 09:44:53PM -0700, David King wrote: It's time to come clean and admit that parts/most of rsync are lost on me. [...] How can I automate the backup via rsync to other servers? Depending on the backup strategy that you want, I highly recommend rsnapshot (/usr/ports

Re: time to come clean... .

2006-09-04 Thread Howard Jones
On 4 Sep 2006, at 05:35, Gary Kline wrote: How can I automate the backup via rsync to other servers? If what you want is a backup to the disk on a remote system (rather than a tape drive or whatever), then have a look at rdiff-backup: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_rdiff_backup

Re: time to come clean... .

2006-09-04 Thread Erik Norgaard
Gary Kline wrote: I've just installed/reinstaled rsync here on ns1.thought.org (aka sage) and on zen.thought.org. I've fiddled with the rsyncd.conf on both FBSD systems. What I don't understand is how rsync, using ssh, gets past the secret password. If, say, I

Re: time to come clean... .

2006-09-04 Thread pauls
--On September 3, 2006 10:02:45 PM -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah, the default IS ssh, rsh-no-mo. what i want is to cron stuff exactly like Mathews's ideas. then at least, i'll have VERY recent synchronization iow:help me get this right; please. i have spent hours

time to come clean... .

2006-09-03 Thread Gary Kline
Folks, It's time to come clean and admit that parts/most of rsync are lost on my. The good-old-days when everybody trusted everybody on the net--when it was mostly just we geeks are way gone. Crackers, prob'ly 12-year-olds using DOS scripts, tried

Re: time to come clean... .

2006-09-03 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Sep 3, 2006, at 10:35 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Folks, How can I automate the backup via rsync to other servers? I believe the default for rsync is to use ssh as a transport. That is how I am using it with ssh certificates. Read up on rsync and if you want to create

Re: time to come clean... .

2006-09-03 Thread David King
It's time to come clean and admit that parts/most of rsync are lost on my. [...] How can I automate the backup via rsync to other servers? Depending on the backup strategy that you want, I highly recommend rsnapshot (/usr/ports/sysutils/rsnapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org/ ). It handles most

Re: time to come clean... .

2006-09-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 10:39:40PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Sep 3, 2006, at 10:35 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Folks, How can I automate the backup via rsync to other servers? I believe the default for rsync is to use ssh as a transport. That is how I am