rsync question?

[Francis Grizzly Smit]

On 28/10/25 14:02, gene heskett wrote:
> Trying to setup a custom backup script here.
> I have 2-way ssh logins w/o pw's using rsa keyfiles instead between the
> machine containing an 11Tb raid6, and all it clients, but rsync insists
> on running its huge username/pw requestor.  This of course kills any
> possibility of crontab-ing it.
>
> Is there an optional --option for rsync so it uses the 4096 bit keyfiles
> instead of the pw for machine to machine copies? The man page for
> rsync-3.2.7 seems silent.


rsync should just use the keys I always use the full spec for the 
foreign box i.e.

rsync -auv local_path remote_user at machinename:remote_path


rsync -auv remote_user at machinename:remote_pathlocal_path


should just work provided each machines public ssh key is in the others 
~/.ssh/authorized_keys


hope that helps

>

>
> Thank you all.
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