Chris Hutchins

All Dreamhost hosting accounts now come with 50gb of free personal backup.I’ve been searching for a while on a good tutorial for this and couldn’t find one, so I thought I would make my own.

1. Setup passwordless login for rsync (can be skipped if you don’t mind typing your password each time you want to sync)

• Open terminal and type the following (press return after each line)


• “ssh-keygen -t dsa” (press enter after all three prompts)


• “scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub remote”


• “cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub » ~/.ssh/authorized_keys”


• “chmod 644 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys”


• “sftp backupusername@backup.dreamhost.com”


• “lcd /Users/OSXUsername/.ssh


• “mkdir .ssh”


• “put authorized_keys .ssh”

• Open terminal and type the following, then press return


• “rsync -avz BackupFolder backupusername@backup.dreamhost.com:DestinationFolder” (example: “rsync -avz ~/Documents bxxxxxx@backup.dreamhost.com:macbook_backup”)


• Optionally, you can add “—delete” after “-avz” (ie: “-avz —delete “) if you want to delete files on your backup once they’ve been deleted locally

• Still working on this, check back later or leave some advice in the comments. Thanks!

Michael Twomey - http://blogs.translucentcode.org/mick/archives/000230.html
Marc Climent - http://codelog.climens.net/2008/12/03/using-dreamhost-backup-account-with-rsync/

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