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Date:      Fri, 13 May 2005 16:23:53 -0400
From:      Mark Bucciarelli <mark@gaiahost.coop>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: backup
Message-ID:  <42850CD9.1090100@gaiahost.coop>
In-Reply-To: <20050513161153.I76354@neptune.atopia.net>
References:  <20050512210337.U41972@neptune.atopia.net> <1652518521.20050513103411@hexren.net> <20050513161153.I76354@neptune.atopia.net>

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Matt Juszczak wrote:

> Problem with this is that I have to then create a tar file on the remote 
> machine, because if I login with sftp from my remote machine, that 
> account wont have access to read all the files it needs to read.

you can:

- create a password-protected ssh cert for root

- load key into ssh-agent on the client

- limit abilities of root ssh connections on server
   using rsync wrapper [1]

- rsync from remote server with cron.

m

[1] http://www.bombich.com/mactips/rsync.html




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