Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 12:16:18 +0300 From: "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: z.szalbot@lc-words.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump and remote file fetching Message-ID: <991123400805280216j136a3171y3f6e9377031fa322@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <483D0181.5010605@lc-words.com> References: <483C8060.2070003@lc-words.com> <483C87F0.9030803@mikestammer.com> <483D0181.5010605@lc-words.com>
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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lc-words.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > Need a word of advice. I use dump to backup my data. All fine. Dump saves >>> compressed *.bz2 files. Nice. All I need now is a way to copy them from the >>> server to a remote backup machine. The problem I am facing is that bz2 files >>> are owned by root:wheel. So if I use scp user@domain.tld:/path/to/*.bz2, >>> it does not have sufficient permissions to fetch the files. I can use sudo, >>> but then I need to interactively type the password, which I would like to >>> avoid. >>> >>> Can you suggest simple ways of getting around this? I don't mind using >>> special tools for the job, especially if they are not too complicated... :) >>> >>> Before firing this email off I took a look at rsync and it seems easy >>> enough to do just what I need but still many thanks for suggestions! >>> >> >> I have been very happy with rsnapshot. Take that for a spin and see how >> it works for you >> > > I have taken a look at rsnapshot but it seems I am left to deal with the > same problem: > > From their page: > In addition to full paths on the local filesystem, you can also backup > remote systems using rsync over ssh. If you have ssh installed and enabled > (via the cmd_ssh parameter), you can specify a path like: > > backup root@example.com:/etc/ example.com/ > > This behaves fundamentally the same way, but you must take a few extra > things into account. > > a/ The ssh daemon must be running on example.com > b/ You must have access to the account you specify the remote machine, in > this case the root user on example.com. > > I do not allow remote root login so what are my options in that case? How > do you deal with such a scenario? Many thanks! HI ZS, I used to do something like this with a very simple shell script, using ftp. In the script, I was simply checking the filename, extracting the date from it, comparing the date with today's date, and pushing into a nother server all files that are dated yesterday. These were log files created using another script, which would create them like main.YYYYMMDD.log. IIRC, ftp relies on a file ~/.netrc which can have the destination hostname, username and password. With these, ftp will be automated - no need to enter any logon credentials. Please read the man page for ftp on how to use the netrc file or the ~/.netrc If you need more assistance, find me off list:-) Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Oh My God! They killed init! You Bastards!" --from a /. post
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