Securely backing up Linux machines to NAS?

[Dan Ritter]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:41:47PM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> So what are the simplest options to back up the Linux hosts?   rsync
> does come to mind, but how to do so securely from each host?   I'd
> consider something via ssh, but that would mean an interactive login,
> and encrypting individual files on the hosts is not an option.

No interactive login required, assuming the Terastation has a
reasonable version of SSH that can use an authorized_keys file
and you can populate it with a non-passworded key.

If you can't, then connect the Terastation directly to a
frontend with a crossover cable, mount the TS on the frontend,
and do backups to the frontend.

-dsr-

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