Re: [SLUG] backing with rsync after ssh root disabled: permission denied

[jam@xxxxxxxxx]

On Wednesday 15 February 2006 05:51, slug-request@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I was using like:
> rsync -avze root@server:/home /home
> to backup the server, after disabling root's ssh, I tried:
> rsync -avze myself@server:/home /home
> however, that fails as 'myself' has insufficient permissions;
>
> what the best way to handle this ?

For me the best solution was:
---- /etc/ssh/sshd_config
..
PermitRootLogin without-password
..

Then make sure the host you're going to (in this case yourself) has the public 
key stored in authorized_keys. Also I don't backup to myself, but it's the 
same. I did not bother to RFM but ... do you not need to specify (ssh 
whatever) with -e?


#! /bin/sh
#
rsync -av -e ssh --delete /etc/         reggit:/tigger/etc
rsync -av -e ssh --delete /var/         reggit:/tigger/var
...

James