On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:28:11AM +0100, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
Any comments anyone? Are there more obvious and/or easier ways of copying files without making systems vulnerable to other attacks?
Perhaps it's a silly question, but why rsync? Is it that you do not know the file names, but do know the destination directory? I'm just asking because there's always scp (secure copy), or sftp/ftp (secure/ File Transfer Program).
Do scp (which I use often when copying a single file) or sftp offer anything that rsync doesn't? They all simply use an underlying ssh connection don't they?
If the data is not confidential, then why are you trying to copy it in a confidential way?
I'm not, as I explained it's not the data I'm concerned about, it's the security of the receiving end.
Could you upload it to a webserver somewhere, a dropbox or a cloud server if you have one. Even email the files to yourself?
Are you the chap who has to ssh from home to an intermediate cloud server and also ssh from the boat to the same server to get a connction? If that's the case, and if you can configure the cloud server, could you do a double rsync?
- scheduled rsync 1
Boat -----> rsync ---> Cloud
- scheduled rsync 2
Cloud ----> rsync ---> Home
- Cronjob to delete files older than X days on Boat.
That's effectively what I do at the moment, it's just rather messy and I'm looking for a simpler method.
What I actually do at the moment is:-
Boat -----> rsync -----> Cloud Home <----- rsync <----- Cloud
I.e. the home system 'pulls' the data from the cloud, I do it this way so there is no 'hole' for the cloud to access my home system. However it means the copy times etc. have to be done by 'dead reckoning', I'd prefer something that was all driven from 'one place' as it were.