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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