[ale] [ot] Xmpp, ejabberd question

[Jim Kinney]

Create a backup user called <machine>bak for each machine and again on the
backup machine so it has individual bak accounts. Use ssh keys and have
each machine rsync to their own directory space. No more admin peeking on
backups.
On Jan 12, 2012 11:08 PM, "Wolf Halton" <wolf.halton at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I stand happily  corrected!
>>
>> old habits die hard. My first foray into rsync required -e ssh and I
>> guess I just glossed over reading that it now the default. I've never used
>> it on a network where ssh was NOT in use :-)
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Brian Mathis <
>> brian.mathis+ale at betteradmin.com> wrote:
>>
>>> As of rsync 2.6 (1 Jan 2004)
>>>    http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.0-NEWS
>>>
>>> The man page since then has said (under SETUP):
>>>    For remote transfers, a modern rsync uses ssh for its communications
>>> [1]
>>> and the -e section says:
>>>    Typically, rsync is configured to use ssh by default
>>>
>>> -e can come in handy if you want to pass other options to ssh, such as
>>> changing the port or encryption cipher.
>>>
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Misc/rsync-2.6.6/rsync.1.html#lbAF
>>>
>>> ❧ Brian Mathis
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hmm. Someone needs to update the rsync man pages to reflect -e default
>>> is
>>> > ssh
>>> >
>>> > On Dec 27, 2011 10:12 AM, "Brian Mathis" <
>>> brian.mathis+ale at betteradmin.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >> There's no need for the -e stuff for a long time now.  Rsync uses ssh
>>> >> by default on all modern versions.  You get the same effect using the
>>> >> simpler form of:
>>> >>
>>> >>    rsync -P file.to.transfer username at remote.host:/path/store/file/
>>> >>
>>> >> ❧ Brian Mathis
>>> >>
>>> >> On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:44 PM, James Sumners <
>>> james.sumners at gmail.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >> > XMPP is really not the right tool for this. Rsync is what you want:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > $ rsync -P -e "ssh -l username" file.to.transfer
>>> >> > remote.host:/path/store/file/
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Where "username" is the SSH user you will be using to transfer the
>>> file.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > On Monday, December 26, 2011, Wolf Halton <wolf.halton at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >> >> What would be wrong with using xmpp as a transfer protocol for
>>> moving
>>> >> >> backups of tarred files? I have used scp for this purpose, but if
>>> the
>>> >> >> tunnel
>>> >> >> is broken, the file is corrupted. From what I have been reading,
>>> if a
>>> >> >> session drops in xmpp, it picks up where it was dropped and
>>> continues.
>>> >> >> I am
>>> >> >> working inside a c-class private subnet.
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> http://sourcefreedom.com
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>> James P. Kinney III
>>
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>> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
>> please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
>> - *2011 Noam Chomsky
>>
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>>
>
> Thanks for this string.  It has helped me speed up my custom back-up
> thing.  I am using "rsync -av here there" and it is doing great.  I am
> using moosefs to mount storage on each client and rsyncing from my
> collection point to the remote server storage.  This is far easier to sort
> out though it is somewhat insecure, since each root user from each of the
> machines can look at all of the tar-kives.
>
> Wolf
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