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Does not work with rsync servers

Open KayTaneJupiter opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

Does not work with rsync servers. Example rsync_tmbackup.sh / MyBackupBox::backups

I see the challenge in trying to manage remote directories and files. But using SSH requires input of a password at every run, so not good for hands-off, automatic backups.

Perhaps a solution could be to use dummy "source" directories with rsync "--delete" flag to create / delete desired directories & files on server side.

KayTaneJupiter avatar Jul 10 '19 19:07 KayTaneJupiter

SSH does not require a password at every run. Use an ssh key public key (you should do this anyway, it is more secure). I never ever remember how to do this, so I wrote a how-to awhile back (for Linux): https://github.com/taw00/howto/blob/master/howto-ssh-keys.md

taw00 avatar Jun 02 '20 20:06 taw00