rsync - May 2004 - coder wanted

Hi

I am using Rsync locally on some machines, however, there are a few machines
that require me to backup over FTP, the current system
I have in place is very very slow, and I would like to hire someone on this list
familiar with backups ($50 sound fine?) and having
it run of cron

To create me a backup script that works on Rsync to backup specific
files/folders on server1 and ssh or ftp to server2

I am not familiar with Rsync or coding to do it myself

If your interested, please contact me at letsfly at www-hosting.net or letsfly
at gci.net

I have a list of files and folders that I would like synced, so its just a
matter of you plugging them into the script

(I will need this script within 24 hours if possible...) hit me on AIM
AlaskanGreyFox

Thanks
Gary

(not sure if this went though the 1st time...sorry if double)

Hi

I am using Rsync locally on some machines, however, there are a few machines
that require me to backup over FTP, the current system
I have in place is very very slow, and I would like to hire someone on this list
familiar with backups ($50 sound fine?) and having
it run of cron

To create me a backup script that works on Rsync to backup specific
files/folders on server1 and ssh or ftp to server2

I am not familiar with Rsync or coding to do it myself

If your interested, please contact me at letsfly at www-hosting.net or letsfly
at gci.net

I have a list of files and folders that I would like synced, so its just a
matter of you plugging them into the script

(I will need this script within 24 hours if possible...) hit me on AIM
AlaskanGreyFox

Thanks
Gary

On Wed, 2004-05-05 19:00:28 -0800, Web Hosting Network
<hosting@www-hosting.net>
wrote in message <E1BLZ7l-0005p8-D7@sandy.thehideout.net>:

[snip]

So you want user_1@machine_1 to rsync machine_1:/some/path to
user_2@machine2 in a path machine_2:/some/other/path ? This should be
done via ssh, right? Easy, that.

- On machine_2, create ~/.ssh as a directory (if it doesn't already exist)

- On machine_1, do:
	$ mkdir ~/.ssh
	$ cd ~/.ssh
	$ ssh-keygen -f rsync-key -t rsa -C "key for rsync"
	(-> NO password)
	$ cat rsync-key.pub | ssh user_2@machine_2 "cat >>
~/.ssh/authorized_keys"
	$ ssh user_2@machine_2 "chmod 0640 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

	(This created a ssh key and allows user_1 to log in as user_2 on
	machine_2 without password)


Now, ssh'ing into machine_2 with user_2 should work, try it:

	machine_1 $>  ssh -i ~/.ssh/rsync-key user_2@machine_2

That should work, now the rsync part:

	machine_1 $>  rsync --rsh="ssh -i /home/user_1/.ssh/rsync-key"
-avz /path/to/your/files/ user_2@machine_2:/path/to/backup

That should work, too, so you can place that command into user_1's
crontab file. rsync's options (I choose -avz here) depend on what you
actually want to achieve, you didn't tell that exactly enough so I took
something that basically does a backup (-a), is a bit verbose (-v) and
compresses data over the link (-z). Especially -z is only wise if you've
got a slow link in between and fast CPUs. Omit it if you're in LAN with
not-that-fast CPUs.

MfG, JBG

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