What package would/should I use to automatically mirror entire directories from
one computer to another?

On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:08:12 -0800
Sidney_Kotic <kant@have.it> wrote:

> What package would/should I use to automatically mirror entire
> directories from one computer to another?
Hi
Any tool that uses rsync as a backend or rsync itself...

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On 9/20/21 3:29 PM, Malcolm wrote:

> Hi
> Any tool that uses rsync as a backend or rsync itself...

Howdy,
I actually use rsync, often as much as 5 times in a row for different
directories, from the command line to accomplish this now. I'd like to automate
it a bit and run it from my crontab, but I'm not fond of leaving scripts laying
around with passwords in them. :-)

On 21/09/2021 02.08, Sidney_Kotic wrote:
> On 9/20/21 3:29 PM, Malcolm wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> Any tool that uses rsync as a backend or rsync itself...
>
> Howdy,
> I actually use rsync, often as much as 5 times in a row for different
> directories, from the command line to accomplish this now.  I'd like to
> automate it a bit and run it from my crontab, but I'm not fond of
> leaving scripts laying around with passwords in them.  :-)

rsync can use a secrets file.

Or, use ssh as backend in paswordless mode.

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On 2021-09-20, Sidney_Kotic <kant@have.it> wrote:
> What package would/should I use to automatically mirror entire directories from
> one computer to another?

rsync

Sidney_Kotic wrote:
> What package would/should I use to automatically mirror entire
> directories from one computer to another?

As an alternative, wget
I use it for some kinds of backup, mirroring entire structures including
the timestamps.

On 9/20/21 4:19 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

> Or, use ssh as backend in paswordless mode.

I thought I'd take what looked to be the simple path. So...
1. Ran the command: ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "kant@have.it"
I used the seemingly default id_rsa and left the passphrase blank.
2. Ran the command: ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub kant@c
"c" is a known host in the /etc/hosts file.
All of this seemed to work.

Tried the command: ssh kant@c
and it asks for a password, as does the rsync command.

In the .ssh directory the file authorized_keys exists and the contents of the
file id_rsa.pub match it.

What did I miss, probably a lot. The results of trying to google this process
are all over the place and vary wildly in their recommendations.

On 22/09/2021 03.17, Sidney_Kotic wrote:
> On 9/20/21 4:19 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
>> Or, use ssh as backend in paswordless mode.
>
> I thought I'd take what looked to be the simple path.  So...
> 1.  Ran the command:  ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "kant@have.it"
>     I used the seemingly default id_rsa and left the passphrase blank.
> 2.  Ran the command:  ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub kant@c
>     "c" is a known host in the /etc/hosts file.
> All of this seemed to work.
>
> Tried the command:  ssh kant@c
> and it asks for a password, as does the rsync command.
>
> In the .ssh directory the file authorized_keys exists and the contents
> of the file id_rsa.pub match it.
>
> What did I miss, probably a lot.  The results of trying to google this
> process are all over the place and vary wildly in their recommendations.
>

Maybe tell the ssh daemon service on destination to accept key file
entry, or perhaps to not accept password.

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Carlos E.R.