On Friday 23 April 2010 00:56:42 Saturn2888 wrote:
> @Tyler J. Wagner
> If it's confirmed Rsync works better than Rsyncd, I'll switch to it.
>
> The problem with SSH Rsync configurations is the public/private keys. I
>  seem to always have problems getting those setup, but I've recently not
>  had those problems so I can try that method, but I've never done it before
>  on Windows machines and will probably have great difficulty doing so.
>  DeltaCopy has an ssh.exe, but I believe that is only a client, not a
>  server. I do have PuTTY on some of the machines if that's helpful at all.

I was referring to using rsync for Linux clients, not Windows.  For the 1 
Windows server I archive, I use rsyncd.  I have not even tried rsyncd on 
Linux.

Setting up SSH keys is easy:

On BackupPC server, as root:

ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t rsa

Set no passphrase.  Still on the server, do this for each client, entering 
that client's root password.

ssh-copy-id -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub root@client

This is equivalent to copying /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub from the server to each 
client's /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file.  Note that both .ssh and 
authorized_keys must be readable/writable/executable by the user only, not 
group/other.

Regards,
Tyler

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