Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)

[Johannes Becker]

I bougth the ADIC DLT library for 150 Euros, but this one is
refurbished/tested. You may get them even cheaper.


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:27:59 +0100, jerome lacoste
<jerome.lacoste at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:15:45 -0500, Brian J. Murrell
> <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:59 -0500, Neil Watson wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:43:47AM -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> > > >IMHO, the right way to do this is to use the "forced command" option in
> > > >the authorized_keys file.  See the manpage for sshd under the
> > > >"AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT" section and create a key on the backup
> > > >server that is forced to run only one command and then use the private
> > > >portion of that key without a passphrase on your client.
> > >
> > > That is very interesting.  Does that mean I could have a key pair
> > > without a passphrase?
> >
> > Sure.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > Do you have an example of how a remote rsync or other
> > > type of backup would use this feature?
> >
> > I'm afraid I don't.  If this is what you want to do, look at Bill
> > Stearns' rsync-backup-server/rsync-backup-client tool(s).
> 
> I am using this setup.
> See
> http://coffeebreaks.dyndns.org/~jerome/wordpress/?p=204
> 
> and http://www.jdmz.net/ssh/ for the original link.
> 
> J
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