Re: rsync support

On 3/10/25 5:57 PM, Carl Shapiro wrote:

> Jon Boone<[email protected]> writes:
>
>> It appears the script assumes an rsync daemon listening on TCP port
>> 873.  Carl, is there some reason to not use ssh instead?  Rsync can
>> support this trivially with much improved security properties.
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> I set this up many years ago so I cannot be absolutely certain but I
> suspect that I used rsync the way I did because that is the method that
> was documented at the time.
Likewise, I set up a monthly cronjob to backup cmucl and other things I 
have on c-l.net. Probably been doing this ever since rsync was available.
> https://web.archive.org/web/20040606094613/http://common-lisp.net/rsync.shtml
>
> I am open to doing something different if there are viable options
> available.
Me too, as long as I don’t have to provide my c-l.net credentials. Some 
passwordless ssh would be fine. Or other scheme.
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