Comments on: Backup Ubuntu using rdiff-backup

By: Aethera

Aethera — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:42:39 +0000

Actually you can simply the SSH key-sharing process considerably with the ssh-copy-id command which is part of ssh in Debian and Ubuntu. No need to manually copy the file to the remote host and append it to the authorized_keys file! Just:

apt-get install ssh
ssh-keygen -t rsa #say yes to defaults. when it #asks for password, this is not necessary. it is #only a password to view the local copy of the #key - its safe to say no
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub user@remotehost

And that is it!

By: san

san — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:48:43 +0000

Is this cron going to take incremental backup?

By: Samson G.

Samson G. — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:56:16 +0000

Are you planning to blog more on this topic. I would like to learn more.

By: Jack Robert

Jack Robert — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:53:51 +0000

That was a great blog. Most blogs are not even worth reading.

By: Jacobian

Jacobian — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:46:11 +0000

Visctrix, it sounds like you’d be better off with anacron:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacron

That will make sure your home computer is backed up regularly, even if it’s not always turned on at 1:15am.

By: visctrix

visctrix — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:44:00 +0000

Two comments/questions:

Firstly you switch confusingly between home - work pcs, and USA - UK pcs - and neither of these descriptions is very useful - can you change the text pair to home - backup pc?

Secondly my two pcs are rarely connected and never powered up at 1.15am. I’d like to use a script to execute this backup periodically when I get round to it. Can you include brief instructions for this.

Thanks

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