Re: [gentoo-user] Finalizing my backup system

[Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>]

On 10/06/2010 05:43 PM, Grant wrote:
> 
> I see what you're saying but don't I need to use the ssh command in
> order to use the rdiff-backup command?
> 
> - Grant
> 

You shouldn't have to, rdiff-backup does it on its own. When you execute
e.g.,

  rdiff-backup /home username@backup.example.com::home

rdiff-backup will connect via SSH and launch that command specified in
the authorized keys file.

For that to work, you'll need password-less SSH to be the default when
connecting to the backup server. Here's what I have in my ~/.ssh/config
to force public key auth to backup.example.com:

  Host backup.example.com
     Hostname backup.example.com
     IdentityFile ~/.ssh/backup_rsa
     IdentitiesOnly yes