Greg Freemyer wrote:
Unfortunately I am paying for a remote backup server that gives me very limited access. I'm just setting things up, so I'm not sure how this will work out.
Getting a ssh connection via a key is unlikely to happen, but I should be able to get them to run rsync as a daemon.
If you have any sort of ssh access at all then you can install keys. You don't need them to do anything. If you don't have any sort of ssh access, even just file-transfer, well, then that is an entirely different problem. But since rsync works manually, that proves you have ssh access and so you can install ssh keys. You generate a key pair yourself on your own box, use your working file transfer ability (you said you can rsync successfully manually, this is all you need) to create a .ssh directory in your own home directory on their box and upload the public key into it. http://www.sshkeychain.org/mirrors/SSH-with-Keys-HOWTO/SSH-with-Keys-HOWTO-4... -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org