Re: rsnapshot in script

[Ed Wilts <ewilts ewilts org>]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 11:41:55PM +0100, Roger Beever wrote:
> I have been using rsnapshot for a while and would like to put it in a
> script to help automate things a bit more but I'm not up in scripting at
> all.
> The script would call rsnapshot hourly (name of the routine not
> literally every hour).
> But the real stopper is the how to respond in the script to the password
> request.

Since rsnapshot can tunnel over ssh, I'm assuming this is what you're
using.  Set up ssh keys since you don't have to answer a password - this
is much safer than hardcoding a password in a script.

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