I need a good backup program.

[Patrick Asselman]

On 2014-01-24 16:04, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 02:29:50PM +0100, Patrick Asselman wrote:
>> Last time i tried to use rsync i ran into some problems.
>> On a single machine it is easy to run it as root and have it backup
>> all user dirs. Backing up to another machine via ssh is not so
>> simple because root is not allowed to ssh in from another machine
>> due to security reasons.
>
> That may be your configuration; it is not the default in Ubuntu or in
> OpenSSH upstream.  Anyway, you might consider backing off from
> "PermitRootLogin no" to "PermitRootLogin forced-commands-only" (which 
> I
> may well make the default at some point, though I'd prefer somebody 
> to
> make the case to upstream first).  At that point you can install an
> uncompressed copy of /usr/share/doc/rsync/scripts/rrsync.gz somewhere
> useful and make it the forced command for the SSH key used by your
> backup system.  This works well.
>
> --
> Colin Watson                                       
> [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]

That sounds very useful indeed, I'll have to look into it.

Thanks!


Patrick