If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you might have seen posts about SSH, RSYNC, ZFS Snapshots and so on. This article aims at describing the big picture, and to explain how I’ve been using those tools and technologies to build my own home backup system.
Tag: rsync
Securing automated rsync over SSH
Quoting the RSYNC homepage : “rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer.”
To make rsync both secure and automated (i.e : non-interactive), you can use SSH as the transport and set up a key pair. This is what will be discussed in this post, along with a few improvements.