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Old 10-23-2007, 06:33 AM   #1
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Rsync over VPN


Hello,

I have a working VPN between two sites (main-site and remote-site). I would like to do an rsync of some folders from the remote site to the main-site. I can do this by hand:

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#rsync -avz admin@10.31.79.89:/Users/admin/html /home/joe/Desktop
This works just fine as long as I suppply the password for admin.

I would like to setup a cron job for this. I have seen lots of documentation of how to do this over ssh (with keys etc.) but since this is already encrypted I dont want to add more encryption because the link is slow.

I have tried using the -i password-file=file_containing_password but I get errors:

Code:
building file list ... rsync: link_stat "/home/joe/password-file=/home/joe/pswd.txt" failed: No such file or directory (2)
I am using Debian 4.0 at the main-site and the remote-site has a Mac O.S. 10 box.

Like I said if I do it by hand, everything works, but i would like to automate the process.

Thanks for any help you can give.

P.
 
Old 10-23-2007, 11:02 AM   #2
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Did you use --password-file= (with the 2 dashes)??
 
Old 10-23-2007, 12:50 PM   #3
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Hi,

I can tell how I used rsync.
My situation was similar to yours!

If the rsa-public-key of the client is in the $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys file of the host system, then you can use the following command

rsync -ave ssh admin@10.31.79.89:/Users/admin/html /home/joe/Desktop

Both my client and host were running Solaris.

Hope this might help, since i am not sure about MacOS.

Best,

indiancosmonaut
 
Old 10-23-2007, 02:23 PM   #4
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A little better

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Did you use --password-file= (with the 2 dashes)??
Thanks for your reply. You were right about the double dashes. It got rid of the error, but it still prompted me for a password. In the pswd.txt file all I have is the password.....nothing else, no username...nada...just the password. Thats OK right?

Thanks again
 
Old 10-23-2007, 02:54 PM   #5
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Come to think of it the --password-file option is for a password for the rsync daemon, not the shell
You'll need to use passwordless ssh to do what you want
 
Old 10-24-2007, 01:47 AM   #6
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Come to think of it the --password-file option is for a password for the rsync daemon, not the shell
You'll need to use passwordless ssh to do what you want
Ouch...thats bad news. If I have to add ssh to this already encrypted data it is gonna add to the copy time. Can anyone think of another way to do this?

Thanks
 
Old 10-24-2007, 11:01 AM   #7
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Well ye....use the rsync daemon - look at /etc/rsyncd.conf - setup the users/passwords etc
 
Old 10-25-2007, 08:11 AM   #8
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Well ye....use the rsync daemon - look at /etc/rsyncd.conf - setup the users/passwords etc

OK Niel,

I will try that and report back...


Thanks a lot for your help. I appreciate it very much.
 
  


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