You can create a passphraseless key pair by just running ssh-keygen -f
filename.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -f backupkey
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in backupkey.
Your public key has been saved in backupkey.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
a5:ac:20:3c:16:1e:31:01:39:44:e2:53:07:9e:9b:70 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Then put the backupkey.pub in the .ssh/authorized_keys file for the
backup user.
Then do an:
rsync -avze"ssh -i backupkey" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path /local/path
Google around, there's tons of info on this. I'd recommend taking a
look at rsnapshot, as it's a good way to keep incremental backups
without using a ton of room as it does hardlinks.
Mark
Néstor wrote:
Yes, I did read the man pages and I asked for help because when I tried
rsync -avz host1:/home/www/ /home/www --password-file=/root/rsync_pwd
It will ask me for the password on host1
I also tried this:
export RSYNC_PASSWORD=XXXXXXX; rsync -avz host1:/home/www/ /home/www
It will also asked for the host1 password.
Thanks,
Nestor :-)
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Urivan Saaib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nestor,
man rsync
set RSYNC_PASSWORD='yourpassword'
or
rsync -avz host1:/home/www/ /home/www --password-file=password_file
Regards,
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On Fri, 30 May 2008 12:42:48 PDT "Néstor" wrote:
When running the rsync command to copy files from one host to another how
do
I pass teh password?
This is my command:
rsync -avz host1:/home/www/ /home/www
It always as for the password and I want to set it up to run as a cron job.
Thnaks,
Néstor
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