[CentOS] Setting up rsync
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Sat Jan 6 05:02:12 UTC 2007
Todd Cary wrote:
> About a year and a half ago, someone answered a request on how to set
> up rsync so that the encryption was automatically setup (wish I knew
> more about the technical aspects). It has been in use for the time
> since then and it has been great. Now I have to replace the
> destination computer and setting up, what I call the encryption part,
> is the part I have forgotten how to do. This is the command line:
>
> /usr/bin/rsync -av -e ssh /home/ 192.168.0.22:/home/
>
> Is there anyone who can translate what I am trying to do?
>
> Todd
>
its using a ssh server, you just need to setup SSH public keys.
look up ssh-keygen. for example (random howto found by google),
http://kimmo.suominen.com/docs/ssh/ ... note, that you need to use a
blank 'passphrase' if you want automatic rsync sessions to run w/o user
intervention.
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