Remote unattended backups Ubuntu

[simple_gifts]

vfat, shame on you.

http://www.osnews.com/story/9681&page=1

I suggest you google vfat and rsync since vfat is a non-native fs to linux; looks like you might have to handle it as a special case or vfat to vfat might not even work since rsync uses date data to decide whether a file needs to be transfered and apparently vfat doesn't track date with enough granularity

 

[NJC]

It is something to do with either vfat or permissions, since I'm trying to access a 2nd hard drive on the server. When I changed it to copy to the server drive in /home it copied fine, and even made an incremental backup when I copied another file to the source folder and ran it again.

Code:
sudo rsync -av '/media/sda2/My Documents/My Videos' @192.168.1.101:/home/xxxxx

 

[NJC]

I became weary of fargin around with rsync commands and error messages so I wiped out my vfat partition on the 80gb drive and reinstalled Ubuntu server on it. I found it odd that Ubuntu Server, of all OS'es, would find it difficult to write to a 2nd hard drive. But maybe it was a vfat problem?

It seems to be merrily copying away now though.

 

[NJC]

After MANY more hours of trying to get ssh public keys working so I can automate a cron job, I might need Plan B.

ssh -vvv indicates failure trying to send rsa packet to server and gives up and resorts to password. I must have tried 6 different installs. It sounds exactly like a permissions issue but I've carefully followed the steps and chmod'ed the proper folders to rw access only.

Edit: Looks like dhcpd is also an option: http://howtoforge.com/automated-backups-using-dhcpd-on-ubuntu

But it still requires the [censored] public keys to work.