Re: [BackupPC-users] automated off-site backup (via BackupPC_archiveStart or restore)

[Filipe B. <fil...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 16:00, Shaun Curry<sc...@gm...> wrote:
> Thanks Les for this.  Does anyone have a working rsync with -H option over a
> sshfs?

You are making this harder than it has to be...

rsync supports doing a transfer over the network using SSH as a transport.

Instead of mounting the filesystem as SSHFS and then doing rsync
<local> <local>, do not mount anything and use rsync <local> <remote>,
it will use SSH by default. If you want to do that in a cron job or
something like that, you can set up SSH keys to do the authentication
without user interaction.

> I am running this command::~# rsync -avH /var/lib/backuppc /backup/pool/

Run instead:

# rsync -avH /var/lib/backuppc remote.host.domain.name:/path/to/backup/pool/

Where obviously remote.host.domain.name:/path/to/backup/pool/ is what
you have mounted under /backup/pool/ using SSHFS on your local
machine...

HTH,
Filipe