From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 4 16:37:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from teak.adhesivemedia.com (teak.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE5D37B403 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:37:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by teak.adhesivemedia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f84NbsY61606 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:37:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) X-Authentication-Warning: teak.adhesivemedia.com: philip owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:37:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: Subject: Unattended remote backups via ssh??? Message-ID: <20010904163035.V61494-100000@teak.adhesivemedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi - I was hoping someone could point me in the general direction of a tutorial that will help me with the following scenerio which must be common, but I can't seem to find the answer today... I have a server with a tape drive behind a firewall. I have several machines outside the firewall that need backing up. When they were all behind the firewall I would use rsync to mirror the files I wanted backed up to the server and then dump that to tape. I'd like to keep that same plan, but I need to run rsync over ssh. And as far as I can tell it needs to run as root so that it can read all the right files... Which means I need to let root ssh into each of the outside servers... which doesn't seem very secure... I also don't want to have to be around when I do it to type in a password... any pointers? advice? thanks! -philip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message