[Linux-disciples] Rsyncing /etc

[Stephen R Laniel]

I want to copy /etc over to a backup machine using rsync and
ssh. ~/.ssh/authorized_keys is all set up on the other end,
so user slaniel logs in without having to type a password.
But I was testing out the rsync command on the command line
before I commit it to a cron job, and I 'sudo'ed it so that
every file in /etc would copy correctly. Still it asked me
for a password. I figured out why: ssh is running as root,
so it's looking for the files /root/.ssh/id_{dsa,rsa}.pub.

What's the best way around this? Should I just copy
slaniel's ssh public keys to /root/.ssh? Somehow that seems
impure and bad.

The command line, for reference's sake, is

sudo rsync --rsh='ssh -v ' --archive --progress --exclude=mp3s /home slaniel at blackthought:/mnt/newdisk/jefftweedy-backup

with that 'ssh -v' bit thrown in for debugging purposes.

I appreciate any help.

Steve

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