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Rsync with SSH without prompting for password

by namhuy.net

Rsync is a free software computer program for Unix and Linux like systems which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer using delta encoding when appropriate.

** Always use rsync over ssh because rsync does not provide any security while transferring data.

rsync over ssh (with password)

rsync -avz ssh /home/user/ user@192.168.0.100:/backup/user/

To use a different ssh port, e.g., 123:

rsync -avz 'ssh -p 123' /home/user/ user@192.168.0.100:/backup/user/

The terminal will prompt for password before proceed.

To rsync without prompting for password, we can generate a ssh public key and add it to backup server’s ssh authorized keys. Below are the steps.