[wellylug] rsync question(s)

[Gerald Roehrbein]

Hello John,

I do not use a tunnel. I use scp instead. Nevertheless I found a link
with useful information using a tunnel.

For using scp with rsync it is a requirement that you can use ssh and
scp login without any password (public key authentification).

scp *.html <your server>:/<your path> should work before using RSYNC. 


If not you must configure it properly. This requires:

ssh-keygen -t rsa
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub user at remote-system
(or copy the public key to the remote system and add it to the
authorized_keys in .ssh under the home directory (cd ~/.ssh )).

At both the systems both users must have same UID and GID. 

This is the first step to get rsync running using scp! 

I won't tunnel via SSH. To complicated!

Nevertheless: One link with a good description of installation and
configuration with a SSH tunnel seems to be:

http://www.hostlibrary.com/BackingupWindowsmachinesusingrsyncandsshEconomicalbackusolutionrsyncandssh.html


kind regards
Gerald