Rsync setup question

juddyjacob · Post by **juddyjacob** » 09 Sep 2012 03:50

I have two Nas4free servers, they are at seperate locations and connected via vpn tunels. I want one server to basicly sync everything to the other. Is this something i should be using rsync for?

nicolap8 · Post by **nicolap8** » 10 Sep 2012 16:59

You have 2 machine:
- RSync SERVER: who receive and store the data
- RSync CLIENT: who send the data
In the RSync page there is a "Client" tab that permit you to configure the "Client" function.
Here consider also the "Direction" option.

juddyjacob · Post by **juddyjacob** » 12 Sep 2012 04:09

I have two servers that replicate with RSync Now, anyone have any experience setting rsync up through SSH?

nicolap8 · Post by **nicolap8** » 12 Sep 2012 13:23

juddyjacob wrote:I have two servers that replicate with RSync Now, anyone have any experience setting rsync up through SSH?

There are the same two connected via vpn tunnel? In this case you dont need SSH.
Never tried to use SSH "from" the NAS, only from a pc client. I think that you need to configure by hand a script at cron.

juddyjacob · Post by **juddyjacob** » 12 Sep 2012 16:11

Yes, I am aware that anything sent through the tunel will be encrypted, I'm just curious as id like to be able to have the option to sync over sh if i ever need it. Just wondering if anyone has ever set this up before?

Post by **lindsay** » 02 Dec 2012 13:20

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rsync -avz -e ssh remoteuser@remotehost:/remote/dir /this/dir/

You also need to make the keys on each servers though to allow them to communicate without punching the password

supercazzola · Post by **supercazzola** » 16 Jan 2013 22:48

do both machines need to have the ssh to connect to the other using keys, or just one (for example, from the destination to the source)?

al562 · Post by **al562** » 17 Jan 2013 06:40

juddyjacob wrote:Just wondering if anyone has ever set this up before?

Yes indeed, lots of people.

supercazzola wrote:do both machines need to have the ssh to connect to the other using keys, or just one

Since they are both servers they already have ssh. One creates key, the other uses key for passwordless authentication. There are good HOWTO's in the forum and in the SUG on wiki with step by step instructions how to do this. There is a learning curve, but once you understand the processes involved it's really easy.

Regards,
Al

piwwo · Post by **piwwo** » 21 Mar 2013 15:43

Hello I would like that too
The wiki article is useless on that
http://wiki.nas4free.org/doku.php?id=do ... rver_rsync
It tells me how to set up passwordless ssh (I already know that) and what commandline I have to use
But i dont want to use commandline as I want to stay with the GUI and not touch the core system (because of updates and config backups).

How do I do that via GUI, why does the rsync client not have a ssh option like freenas has?
http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Rsync_Tasks

I am using openvpn too, what secures the connection over the internet, however from openvpn-router to nas everything is unencrypted, that enables anyone on a lan thats not trustworthy to read the rsynced data. Therefore I need ssh for this last step.

Thanks for help.

XigmaNAS

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