From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P3fYz-0001bd-2y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 01:46:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92FF3E0AD1; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 01:45:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.viabit.com (mail2.viabit.com [65.246.80.16]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4679CE0AD1 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 01:45:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (c-68-49-223-78.hsd1.md.comcast.net [68.49.223.78]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail2.viabit.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 11F68D8D21 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 21:45:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4CAD261E.40800@orlitzky.com> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:45:02 -0400 From: Michael Orlitzky User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100913 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Finalizing my backup system References: <4C9FC1EA.3070309@orlitzky.com> <4CACD22E.1080104@orlitzky.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 34a5eb13-519b-4566-9ee4-6565c1f6e6bb X-Archives-Hash: ebd2d17802628ec185b9df1e4f17dd84 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