From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 1 2:38:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ockle.dev.nanoteq.co.za (ockle.dev.nanoteq.co.za [196.7.114.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C5A914BC3 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 02:36:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkruger@oskar.nanoteq.co.za) Received: from oskar.nanoteq.co.za (ockle [196.7.114.28]) by ockle.dev.nanoteq.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA13289; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 12:19:10 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from jkruger@oskar.nanoteq.co.za) Message-ID: <3844F61E.FB8862DC@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 12:19:10 +0200 From: Johan Kruger Reply-To: jkruger@oskar.nanoteq.co.za Organization: Nanoteq X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sparky Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Backups References: <3844DCD2.32EFD7E5@itsunix.uwc.ac.za> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------A9A8C6C0131A9195A3C9C246" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------A9A8C6C0131A9195A3C9C246 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sparky wrote: > 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 Firstly, dont edit the crontab file, it wont be reloaded, use 'crontab -e' to insert your new cron. Secondly, you can generate a a key with ssh for each maschine, this key is then put on the backup server to which you are going to scp, OR just edit the /etv/sshd.conf file to allow the specific i.p's of the maschines you want to backup. Greetings, Johan Kruger --------------A9A8C6C0131A9195A3C9C246 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="jkruger.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Johan Kruger Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="jkruger.vcf" begin:vcard n:Kruger;Johan tel;cell:+27 83 3015923 tel;fax:+27 12 6651343 tel;home:+27 83 3015923 tel;work:+27 12 6651338 x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Nanoteq;Development version:2.1 email;internet:jkruger@oskar.nanoteq.co.za title:Mr adr;quoted-printable:;;P.O BOX 12872=0D=0AOnderstepoort=0D=0A0110=0D=0ASouth Africa;Pretoria;Gauteng;0110;South Africa x-mozilla-cpt:;1920 fn:Johan Kruger end:vcard --------------A9A8C6C0131A9195A3C9C246-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message