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.