Re: Backup script question...

[Jerome Macaranas <jerome@gmanmi.tv>]

you may want to read manual for sshd.. IIRC you need to create files like 
authorized keys, and.. hmmm i forgot..



On Wednesday 30 June 2004 03:28, you 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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