[rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup over FTP

2009-05-06 Thread Chencho
Hi all. I use rdiff-backup actually to make incremental backups from office servers to Internet server over ssh. All works fine. Now i want to develop an app (windows platform will be 99% users) to make this external incremental backups directly from the desktop, without office server. I'm not

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup over FTP

2009-05-06 Thread Patrick Nagel
Hi Chencho, On 2009-05-06 23:02, Chencho wrote: Now i want to develop an app (windows platform will be 99% users) to make this external incremental backups directly from the desktop, without office server. I'm not sure how configure ssh in each desktop to not ask about password, and i think the

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup over FTP

2009-05-06 Thread Gregy
Wouldn't it be easier to just follow the guide located on the wiki? There is step-by-step how to configure rdiff-backup on windows as a client to linux server. Or do you want windows to be the server? 2009/5/7 Patrick Nagel : > Hi Chencho, > > On 2009-05-06 23:02, Chencho wrote: >> >> Now i want t

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup over FTP

2009-05-06 Thread Patrick Nagel
Hi, On 2009-05-07 14:14, Gregy wrote: Wouldn't it be easier to just follow the guide located on the wiki? There is step-by-step how to configure rdiff-backup on windows as a client to linux server. Or do you want windows to be the server? Oh, right, there is a Wiki article: http://wiki.rdiff-b

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup over FTP

2009-05-06 Thread Chencho
Hi all. I think i dont explain as well in my first post. Actually i can use rdiff-backup without password from Windows and Linux without problems. But it needs some configuration that i would be "harder" for the final user. Her is my "whise list": -Server on Centos (linux) over the net. -A de

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup over FTP

2009-05-07 Thread Grzegorz Marszałek
Hello, Her is my "whise list": -Server on Centos (linux) over the net. -A desktop application for the final user: - Select the folders to make backup on local PC - Select the current user and password to make backup - Select when the backup must be execute If i need to configure rsa-key, a

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup over FTP

2009-05-07 Thread Gregy
Well you could use just one key for everyone...but that would cause security issues (one person overwriting onother one's backup) or you could backup the files over samba..just mount smb share as a drive letter on windows and run "local" backup with rdiff-backup. That should theoreticaly work. 200

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup over FTP

2009-05-07 Thread Chencho
The server is actually my hosting server; i have access to shell as root. The users accounts will be made by me directly into the server by ssh or plesk. Normally, i have this: I have a domain called remotlybackups.com (not true). When a user paid, i made a subdomain, for example: user1.remot

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup over FTP

2009-05-07 Thread Gregy
I use rdiff-backup under one user "backup". I use ssh keys and in front of the key i put rdiff-backup --server --restrict ..etc That ensures that if you log-in with specific key you are restricted to rdiff-backup and one particular directory..sample below. To answer your question..you can login wit

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup over FTP

2009-05-07 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:02:38AM -0700, Chencho wrote: > > Hi all. > > I use rdiff-backup actually to make incremental backups from office servers > to Internet server over ssh. > > All works fine. > > Now i want to develop an app (windows platform will be 99% users) to make > this external i

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup over FTP

2009-05-07 Thread Giorgio Moscardi
Hi, Patrick Nagel ha scritto: > Hi, > > On 2009-05-07 14:14, Gregy wrote: >> Wouldn't it be easier to just follow the guide located on the wiki? >> There is step-by-step how to configure rdiff-backup on windows as a >> client to linux server. Or do you want windows to be the server? > > Oh, righ

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup over FTP

2009-05-08 Thread Grzegorz Marszałek
BTW, if i set the user shell to rdiff-backup --server... i'm not sure how can i logging to it "without" password prompt form Windows app. I use plink command. There one trick you have to do if you really what it to be unattended - you need to convert your server ssh-key to putty format a

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup over FTP

2009-05-08 Thread Grzegorz Marszałek
Wiadomość napisana w dniu 2009-05-07, o godz. 12:23, przez Gregy: Well you could use just one key for everyone...but that would cause security issues (one person overwriting onother one's backup) or you could backup the files over samba..just mount smb share as a drive letter on windows and r

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup over FTP

2009-05-08 Thread Chencho
Thanks, i'm looking for something like it. Grzegorz Marszałek wrote: > >> >> BTW, if i set the user shell to rdiff-backup --server... i'm not >> sure how >> can i logging to it "without" password prompt form Windows app. > > I use plink command. There one trick you have to do if you really w