Timothy Murphy wrote:
I've been using rsync to backup my desktop to another machine linked by ethernet. Actually, to date I have only been backing up my own files, and have had no problems. But I was thinking of backing up the whole system, and I discovered that I would have to allow root login with ssh. I know how to do this in the sshd config but would prefer not to do it if possible. Is there a simple way round this?
rsnapshot will do that for you, you can use a regular user account to backup what you need, generally I symlink what I want backed up into a /bak directory (/etc, /var/www, et al) and back it up that way.
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