[OpenIndiana-discuss] Root as role vs. user and rsync

[Ian Collins]

On 05/ 7/12 01:04 AM, Jeppe Toustrup wrote:
> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Gary Gendel<gary at genashor.com>  wrote:
>> I finally decided to take the bullet and make root a role instead of a user.
>>   All went well except for my nightly backup.
>>
>> I have a backup server that rsyncs my various collection of Linux,
>> OpenIndiana, Windows, and Mac machines nightly. Without root as a user, how
>> do I set up rsync to ssh onto the machine and retrieve the root system files
>> on OpenIndiana?
> There are two ways as I see it:
>
> 1. Start rsyncd (see
> http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/rsync+daemon+service+on+OpenIndiana)
> and set up a share for '/' which you then can rsync against. You can
> either do this directly over the network (unencrypted) or SSH into the
> machine and connect to rsyncd through localhost.

I'll second that recommendation, it is the way I rsync off anything 
derived from OpenSolaris.  From what I've seen, this option  offers the 
best performance.

I lock the share down so only the backup server can read from it, see 
rsync.conf(5) for details.

-- 
Ian.