Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:55:48 -0500 From: Andrew Y Ng <ayn@AndrewNg.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Brent Bailey <misterb@bmyster.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rsync install help Message-ID: <20030905205548.GA18346@AndrewNg.com> In-Reply-To: <20030905200024.GA45683@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <1141.66.63.97.2.1062787167.squirrel@bmyster.com> <20030905200024.GA45683@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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I would also look into keychain, this way u won't have to have a
passphrase-less ssh key...
i rsync a bunch of stuff in cron with ssh and keychain:
25 2 * * * . ~/.ssh-agent-${HOSTNAME} && rsync -av /foo/* bar.foo.=
com:foo/
/ayn
On 0, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 02:39:27PM -0400, Brent Bailey wrote:
> > Im using FBSD 4.8rc1 ..IM getting ready to install rsync to help with
> > mirroring to another redundant FBSD box. I was wondering if anyone could
> > point me a a good howto for this ?
>=20
> Oooh... an easy one.
>=20
> # cd /usr/ports/net/rsync
> # make install
> =20
> > any and all help is greatly appreciated
>=20
> Actually, I guess you aren't asking so much about how to install
> rsync(1), as how to do the mirroring to the second machine.
>=20
> The thing to realise is that rsync on FreeBSD runs over ssh(1) by
> default. Presumably you want the rsync job to happen automatically,
> which means you need to set up a mechanism by which ssh(1) can
> authenticate to the other machine without stopping to input a
> password.
>=20
> That's explained here:
>=20
> http://www.snailbook.com/faq/no-passphrase.auto.html
>=20
> Once you've got the authentication bit working, then it's simply a
> matter of running something derived from this at regular intervals:
>=20
> #!/bin/sh
>=20
> remote=3D"sparehost.example.com"
>=20
> fslist=3D"/ /usr /home"
>=20
> for fs in $fslist ;=20
> do
> rsync -azx --delete ${remote}:${fs}/ ${fs}/
> done
>=20
> Note that you'll need to run as root on both ends of the connection,
> which implies that you'll be allowing root access without a password
> from one machine to the other, so you need to pay attention to the
> features available in the authorized_keys file to ameliorate the
> damage possible should the key be stolen.
>=20
> Cheers,
>=20
> Matthew
>=20
> --=20
> Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
> Savill Way
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