trying to do a backup

Paxmaster · 05-19-2005, 09:23 PM

I have created ssh keys and I could login with no passwd form client to server and other around,

so my question is I am trying to do backup such as /etc just for a test with rsync
and i am using this command sudo rsync -e 'ssh -x' -avz hostname:/etc /home/paxmaster/testing/backup/

but the problem is why its asking me password if i have created ssh-keys

I can login with password if i do it with regular way such as ssh ipadress

anybody could help me, it would be great thanks

macemoneta · 05-20-2005, 07:46 PM

When you are using sudo, you are running as root. You will need to create and exchange the key under the root account.

Paxmaster · 05-21-2005, 03:03 PM

I have too think outside of the box, now on thx

and my other questions is how would I compare two different dir, since i did the backup i want to know if the two dir is the same, but the problem i want to compare from two different remote location, how would i do that.

thx

macemoneta · 05-21-2005, 03:16 PM

Well, that's rsync's job; to compare the source and destination, and send any differences.

If you want to verify that rsync is doing what you expect, you can:

ssh userid@remotehost ls -lR directory/ > remotedir.txt

and compare the file attributes against the local filesystem.