I wasn't sure if the original question was about scp or cron. But since you're talking about scp, I'll go with that... I don't know if scp is the right tool for doing backups. It might be better to use rsync. Here is a link to an article I stumbled upon while googling last weekend: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ Anyway, with scp, you would want to generate a key w/o a passphrase so you can connect non-interactively. Googling for "tutorial OR howto ssh-keygen" yeilded this link: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~arun/misc/ssh.html That looks like a good, brief tutorial on using ssh. Note that you don't want to use a passphrase. Otherwise, it will ask for that in batch mode. At 06:39 AM 5/4/2006, Georgina Joyce wrote: >Hi > >I'd tried scp for that job but I'm not sure if that's the right tool for >the job but the man page suggests that the -B switch is for batch mode. > >Maybe if you used: > >man scp > >manrcp > >You could choose which would suit your situation. > >HTH > >Gena > >On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:59:55AM +0100, Chris Norman wrote: > > Hi people, > > I'd like to be able to backup my stuff securely with cron using scp. > > > > I've looked at the manual but I'm having a job, > > > > How's it used please? > > > > Chris Norman > > <!-- chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com --> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >---end quoted text--- > >-- >2E0AXU > >Freedom & Power provided by debian GNU Linux > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
