[wellylug] rsync question(s)

[John Durham]

Gerald Roehrbein wrote:
> 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
Thanks for that. Would I be right in saying that scp is a Linux command, 
since it does not perform any function at the XP pro command prompt? If 
so, is there some equivalent? Note: This system uses several windows 
machines and only one Ubuntu server.