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Title: Secure file transfer over internet best practices
Post by: drick on October 04, 2009, 10:34:14 AM

hi,

i want to set up some type of secure file transfer between 2 DNS343's between my house and my parents house. i will be using DynDNS at both locations and want this to be an automated process. i'm sure someone else has already figured out how to do this, so i was wondering what others are doing, and how it works?

both units will be funplugged, so i can go that route as well.

Title: Re: Secure file transfer over internet best practices
Post by: drick on November 15, 2009, 12:12:24 PM

bump

someone else must have done this already?

Title: Re: Secure file transfer over internet best practices
Post by: affinity on November 28, 2009, 07:41:56 PM

I have two units that have funplug installed and I use an "at" job to backup another server to each of the DNS units.

The script uses rsync; I can see no reason why this couldn't easily be achieved based on my working setup.

I also, at this stage, manually backup remote servers for clients with screen sessions and using rsync; the remote sites are standard server machines that have ssh running.  I use key authentication and to get keys working automagically, I use ssh-agent and ssh-add tools on the DNS units.

Edit: Oh and to lessen the CPU load on the DNS units, I use the "arcfour" cipher.

Here is a sample rsync command:
/ffp/bin/rsync -avxH -e "ssh -l -o -c arcfour" root@other_server:/source-backup-location/ dest-backup-location

An odd thing about using "date" on the DNS box is that it presents the GMT date/time, not the local date/time, but the at scheduling uses actual localized timing.