[Dirvish] dirvish backup with 2 ubuntu-servers

[ml-it-dirvish at epigenomics.com]

On 22 Apr 2008 14:33:32 +0200,
 "Frank Lüken" <flueken at tvt.uni-paderborn.de> wrote:
> Hi, i have 2 ubuntu-servers (with no active root account). And want to
> configure a daily backup from server 1 to server 2. That means i want to
> backup "/" from the server 1 at the hd of server 2! But for that i need
> root rights, right? Have someone a solution for me? (Note: I don't want to
> activate the root account!)

You do not need a root password. Just put the SSH public key of your
backup server's root account into /root/.ssh/authorized_keys of your
production server.

You could also configure the rsync daemon to share "/" to the other
machine with root rights.

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