[wellylug] Rsync

[Andrew Stephen]

On 12/14/05, E.Chalaron <e.chalaron at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>
> Hi there
> I am trying to Rsync my machines to transfer data overnight in my local
> network.
>
> I managed to use Rsync with SSH, but a/ it is an overkill and b/ running it in
> a crontab may probably not work because of the pasword.
> My guess is that an anonymous rsync will be the best, but I am getting
> confused wit the syntax...
>
> The following is working Ok but needs a password
> sync -az --stats --rsh=ssh rimutaka:/home/movies /home/work
>
> Can anybody help ?

Using SSH is the Right Thing(tm) here.

What you want to do is to use key pair authentication (without a
passphrase) instead of password authentication.

See http://www.jdmz.net/ssh/

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