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Secure passwordless root backups with rrsync

Posted on 2020/06/08 by kauer
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The Problem: You need to access a remote system with rsync to back it up. But some of the files or directories you need to back up need root permissions to read. You need to automate the backups, so you can’t use a password or passphrase. But you really don’t want to allow passwordless logins to the remote, and especially not as root! So what to do?

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