From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 1 0:25:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itsunix.uwc.ac.za (cache.uwc.ac.za [196.11.235.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FE0215A99 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 00:25:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@itsunix.uwc.ac.za) Received: (qmail 24095 invoked by uid 102); 1 Dec 1999 08:31:14 -0000 Received: from localhost.uwc.ac.za (HELO itsunix.uwc.ac.za) (root@127.0.0.1) by localhost.uwc.ac.za with SMTP; 1 Dec 1999 08:31:14 -0000 Message-ID: <3844DCD2.32EFD7E5@itsunix.uwc.ac.za> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 10:31:14 +0200 From: Sparky X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Backups Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello.... Can anyone help me? I want to do backups of 4 machines to a backup server ( all running Unix ) machine 1 LINUX REDHAT 6 machine 2 SOLARIS 2.6 machine 3 FREEBSD machine 4 LINUX REDHAT 6 backup FREEBSD The idea is to use the crontab daemon to scp the machines necessary files to the backup server, and then for the backup server to....well of course back them up. The first question is : 1) Is this way correct. 2) How do I get the backup to accecpt scp connections without a password from only those machines. 3) How to set up the crontab file on the machines to perform the sending tasks. I have tried to edit the sshd config files....but no luck. I have also tried some tests with crontab file ..... no luck. Note: You might wonder why I am asking these questions......well actually I am new to UNIX aprox 4 weeks. So all the advice would be appreciated. Thanks for your time Mark Mark@itsunix.uwc.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message