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Re: Advice needed: Scheduled rsync via SSH with ssh-agent...



You should be able to use rsync -e ssh and call it from system agent


Don Littlefield II wrote:

Hi there folks,

I need some advice on how to do what I initially
thought would be a simply thing.

Basically, on a scheduled basis, I need to rsync some
files between hostA to hostB.

I have to make use of SSH for the connection which is
where my troubles are coming in.  As this process
needs to be automated and hands off, I need to make
the authentication happen automatically.

Interactively, I can run ssh-agent and then ssh-add to
get rsync to continue without a prompt.  However, as
this process needs to be scripted and work after
reboots with no fiddling...im in a bit of a rut.

I cannot see how I can get ssh-agent running as a
service. I've seen some posts from folks on this, but
I tried their methods to no avail.  While I do get
ssh-agent running as a service, the needed env
variables are not set and so ssh-add does not work.

Maybe there is some other workaround to this or there
is some better solution you folks can think of.  My
only other possibility is using a Perl script I wrote
using SCP to do the sync with Net::SCP::Expect..,
but...rsync is more robust and hence I would like to
stick with it.

Any ideas appreciated!

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