Life Is Rich

Now that I quit playing WoW, I was finally able to finish my promised SSH notes… In my backup article, I mentioned two things in regards to ssh:

1. If you expose your computers ssh port to the wild west of the Internet, you should harden (i.e. protect) it from attack
2. if you wanted to use rsync in an automated backup script between machines, you would need to setup public / private key authentication instead of pure password authentication

These two things are actually somewhat related, so I’ll tackle them both in one place. This article definitely requires some command-line fu (In other words, Dad, you don’t have to click the Continue Reading link if you don’t feel like it… no offense intended, really…)

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This will be a bit more technical than most of my posts, but still a topic worthy of being addressed even for the most technically averse – the life-saving backup. Computer backup of course. I’ve taken a three prong approach to the problem. Fortunately, they come in different varieties of technical complexity. In other words, Dad – you can handle the first method. For the more technical savvy, you can probably handle methods one and two. And for the masochists and command-line junkies, section three covers my favorite tool of yore. The first two are short and sweet – the fun times are in the third.

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