Moving Files Between YDL Machines

[Ben Ricker]

I would not run rsync as a daemon. First, you are relying on the
security of the daemon running 24/7 while you may only need it for a few
minutes of transfer. Two, the transport mechanism is plain text.

Use the '-e' toggle and point to the locations of ssh. (rsync -e
/usr/local/bin/ssh) and this will utilize ssh as the transport. SSH is
much more secure means of transport, the daemon is particularly secure
since that is its function. You can also use passkey authentication or
host key authentication to do "passwordless" transfers.

I use rsync over ssh for roughly 30 servers running Solaris and Linux
and sync stuff to my OS X box at home using this very method. Works
great and is secure to boot.

Ben Ricker

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 15:56, Patrick Larkin wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 03:56 PM, Ken Schweigert wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:16:23PM -0400, Patrick Larkin wrote:
> >> Hello -
> >>
> >> I need to automate the movement of files between machines.  I need to
> >> move datafiles created on a MacOS X machine to two YDL machines.  I
> >> need to be able to script the transfer and to use cron to run move the
> >> files at a precise time.
> >
> > I use rsync and cron to "backup" the logfiles from an Apache server.
> > rsync is available on both linux and OSX.  You will have to run one
> > of the servers as a daemon, though.  This isn't much of a problem
> > when you can firewall that port to only the two machines that need
> > access to it.
> >
> > If you need or want more details, let me know.
> 
> Hi Ken -
> 
> Yes, I would like some insight.  I'm attempting to follow whats on this 
> webage:
> 
> http://everythinglinux.org/rsync/
> 
> On the MacOS X machine, I created an rsyncd.conf file as shown.  I 
> changed the values and am running rsync in daemon mode.  I created a 
> secrets file with a single user.   As soon as I get it to work, I will 
> only allow these two hosts.  Oh, I also created a data dir on the 
> server where the files will go...its owned by root.  The user defined 
> in the rsyncd.conf file is not root.  Don't know if that makes a 
> difference.
> 
> So, now, I'm not sure what to do next.  Still reading...  I'm not sure 
> how to tell the server that I'm requesting the file in the predefined 
> directory as the predefined user...
> 
> 
> Patrick Larkin
> Bethlehem Area School District
> 
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