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Hallo, i am verry sorry about my bad engllish. But i trie my best... I trie to setup an Backupserver. If i use this rsync -varpog -e ssh /home/www/web6 217.172.xxx.xxx:/home/www/web6 the Server is asking me fore Password. If i use this rsync -varpog -e ssh --stats /home/www/web6 217.172.xxx.xxx:/home/www/web6 --password-file=host1.pwd the Server is asking me too fore Passwort. How i can bring

There is a rather rambling tutorial at: http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp14admin/rsync/ (this does not have ssh tunnelling in there) Though for the following - if the files are owned by root - root will be the only one able to rsync them across? Maybe creating a special account with some extra file privaledges but not 100% root could get the job done for you? Lachlan. >...

Here is the problem. I have a primary and a secondary web server. I want to sync the home directory paths on the primary server with the secondary server. I am fairly ignorant to rsync and wondering what is the best method of doing this and how would I call the procedure from say a "perl script". Both Servers are FreeBSD 4.2 and there are actually two directorys I want to sync 1)