[NTLUG:Discuss] Unattended ssh/scp/sftp transfers...

[Jim Williams]

Along with the hints MadHat gave you on automating the SSH stuff, you 
might try "rsync -e scp ....." for the copying itself. That way you only 
both sides and copy updated files only.

Tom Woody wrote:

> I want to use SSH to automate some regular backups and am having the worst time at it...
> 
> I have various hosts that I need to either retrieve files from, or perform backups
> 
> I know that I can use ssh,sftp,scp,etc to do these-as I have done them...but there is no way I have found to handle the authentication for the automated tasks.  
> 
> 1) I have tried doing RSAAuthentication but since I need to do this in a crontab I can't use the ssh-agent to store the passphrase, and I haven't found a way to provide the passphrase as an argument to scp/ssh
> 2) I have tried using the SSH1 Rhosts authentication but that doesn't seem to want to work either
> 
> Anyone have any other suggestions...I am all ears!
> 
> 


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