Re: Backup script question...

[Jacques Sabrie <sabrie@mitre.org>]

Ken,

Try this site:

http://huizen.dto.tudelft.nl/devries/security/ssh2_pubkey_auth_config.html

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 14:28, Ken Keefe wrote:
> I wrote a very basic bash script that tars a set of critical files and
> then scp's the tar file to a server of mine. For right now it asks me
> for a password for the remote user and I enter it by hand. How can I
> accomplish this same sort of thing but in an automated fashion? I'd like
> to be able to add a cron job so it does this everyday at such and such
> time even when I am not around to feed it the password... for obvious
> security reasons, I'd rather not store my password in the script or some
> other file...
> 
> What other suggestions do people have for backing stuff up?
> 
> I made the silly mistake of typing rm -rf name * instead of rm -rf name*
> and I need to get serious about backing up my data. Luckily I had, just
> by chance, created a tar file of the stuff I lost.
> 
> Ken Keefe
> 
> 
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