[Wylug-help] Backing up to remote host - using keychain for passwords

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 02 March 2011 17:55:35 A J Cole wrote:
> Anne,
> 
> I think you mentioned mouting (automounting?) filesystems as part of
> your problem description (I haven't checked back so may be wrong).
> 
> If that is the case you need to check the ownershap and protection of
> the mount points (ie. pre-mount): odd settings can affect access rights
> to the (over-)mounted filsystem.
> 
The remote directories are on drives mounted in fstab.  I'm not worried about 
these backups running when I'm not logged in - it's not likely to cause me to 
miss too many backups.  What keychain does, though, is to cache the passphrase 
and make them available to cron and the like.   The key is on the remote host 
in knownhosts, and I can ssh from konsole into the server, but by default that 
puts me into my home directory.  I'm guessing that that needs to happen 
*before* luckybackup tries to connect to the /Data1/subdirectories.

They claim that it can do backup to and from remote directories, but I'm 
wondering if it only works with password-free connections.  Again, the manual 
claims that it works with other passphrase-caching tools, though.  I'm just 
not convinced that key-pairs without passphrase are a good idea.

Anne
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