Hi ALL, this is my first ssh script to automate some backup via sftp: Code: #!/bin/sh echo "OK, starting now..." tar -zcvf binary404.tar.gz /var/www/vhosts/binary404 sftp [email protected] put /root/binary404.tar.gz / exit echo "OK, all work done..." so: - the script make the tar - after regular connect to user.your-backup.de but... - put comand don't happens :| suggestions? thx GioMBG
The problem you will face is the password dialog. If sftp does not allow you (like scp doesn't) to directly add the password as parameter you need to "capture" it and send the password. I tried sth similar some years ago and I think to remember I used "expect" or "autoexpect" to solve this. But as you need to store the password hardcoded anyway, you might think of key based authentication. Just keep in mind that you have a kind of trust which may aid an attacker to access your backup machine as well, once compromised your source machine. (But this would be the case when storing the password as well). By this time then I ended up using ftps as the access is at least "jailed" to the users dir in the ftp server, whereas it needs much more work to jail an ssh user just for transferring encrypted backups. Another solution could be to use samba, and place a truecrypt container on that share. So when the backup starts, mount the smb share, then mount the truecrypt container and store your backup there. With this you have at least encrypted data packets (truecrypt) on an unencrypted channel (samba), eventhough you need to decrypt when trying to access the backup from wherever.
Hi Ben Hi Ben, I just follows a procedure to save my id_rsa onto my machine and sftp server properly to not save my sftp credentials to my script and go VERY WELL!: Code: take from: http://www.snailbook.com/faq/no-passphrase.auto.html For automatic authentication in an interactive context, you should use public-key authentication with ssh-agent, hostbased authentication, or Kerberos if available. To use ssh-agent, first get public-key authentication working without it, so that SSH works but you must enter your key passphrase each time you connect. Then simply type: % eval `ssh-agent` % ssh-add <private key file> # e.g. ~/.ssh/id_RSA % ssh-add -l thx to hetzner tutorial: echo mkdir .ssh | sftp [email protected] scp backup_authorized_keys [email protected]:.ssh/authorized_keys in fact to be sure about this I run the script that regive me the ssh console and I try directly to input via ssh the cmd Code: put /var/www/vhosts/binary404/config.php /pippo/config.php and go (without digit any paswd) on other machine via sftp my problem is only that I don't know how to write the script to run the second (textarea) sftp cmd GioMBG
You should google for bash scripting and sftp this you give you some hints. e.g. http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/25929-scripting-multiple-file-puts-sftp.html (last Post)
RESOLVED! using sftp with ssh script scheduled by a cron Hi Ben, I search for two days, as always I do before ask help... but the problem was another... I have try to check if I have sftp in my installed package and this was the error because when I install ftp everythink go to the solution. Thanks for EOF now I have errors = 0 in my script! Code: #!/bin/sh HOST='[email protected]' FILE='file.txt' sftp $HOST <<EOF cd /backup put $FILE bye EOF respect GioMBG
