Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 21:35:00 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: time to come clean... . Message-ID: <20060904043500.GA8617@thought.org>
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Folks,
It's time to come clean and admit that parts/most of rsync are
lost on my. The good-old-days when everybody trusted everybody
on the net--when it was mostly just we geeks are way gone.
Crackers, prob'ly 12-year-olds using DOS scripts, tried to
crack my ns1 server. After that I upgraded to bind-9 and read
[and enjoyed] DNS/BIND, *and* began using ssh. So a lot of my
automatic backup programs stopped working. As thought.org grew
from one machine to four, it became that much harder to tar and
backup stuff. (I have automated some backups, but crudely.
Now, after Friday's "trap 18", my first fatal ever, it's time
to follow the backup system that Matthew suggested.)
How can I automate the backup via rsync to other servers? I have
a couple boxen out there miles remote; the rest are meters apart.
If 'expect the unexpected' is any guide, now I *am* expecting.
If it means a few days and 8 hours of typing, then that's just
the price. (That I had a recent TaoEtc.tbz is a good sign; that
it was in /usr/tmp _on_ tao is not a good sign... .)
I've just installed/reinstaled rsync here on ns1.thought.org (aka
"sage") and on zen.thought.org. I've fiddled with the rsyncd.conf on
both FBSD systems. What I don't understand is how rsync, using
ssh, gets past the secret password. If, say, I want to
copy all of my www files from sage to zen, what do I put
into /usr/local/etc/rsyncd.secrets? Let's say that rsyncd.secrets
had:
# User : pw
root : abcd
kline: wxyz
Would this old snippet work as a starting place, exec'd by root:
rsync --verbose --progress --stats --compress --rsh=/usr/local/bin/ssh
--recursive --times --perms --links --delete \
--exclude "*bak" --exclude "*~" \
/usr/local/www/* zen.thought.org:/usr/local/www
??
Thanks for any clues. I have a lot of stuff tarballed, but it's
time to do things right!!
gary
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Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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