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

[Nigel Metheringham]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:32 -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
>  	Yes, I'm already doing this, but I like to have a passphrase on my 
> dsa_key... 

Personally I generate a completely separate key, with no password.  This
ssh's into a specific backup account on the target, and
the .ssh/authorized_keys setup restricts the login to only be from a
specific machine and only allows one specific command.

I can then use cron to ssh -i mybackupkey ...

I prefer that to having more important (general purpose) keys left in
memory when I'm not around.

	Nigel.
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[ Nigel Metheringham           Nigel.Metheringham at InTechnology.co.uk ]
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