Fluffy Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 As the title suggests I'm trying to backup my synology server to unraid. I am not using ssh keys but just standard user/pass. i thought it would be as simple as adding the new user to an allow list of some sort.. I can get hyper backup to do this if i use the root credentials but i cannot seem to find how to grant a "backup" user rsync privileges? Quote Link to comment
testdasi Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 Is your Synology on the same network? If so just use Unassigned Devices to mount the SMB share and do the rsync to the UD mount instead. Quote Link to comment
Fluffy Posted February 21, 2020 Author Share Posted February 21, 2020 Thanks for the prompt reply. I appreciate the help and I'll test it this way, but i really want to know what i need to do to enable rsync on my backup account user. Quote Link to comment
Derek_ Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Hi Fluffy - yes you can. You'll need the SSH Plugin which allows you to setup a user with a home and /bin/bash profile. I use my "backup-user" to SSH into unRAID and i've actually disabled SSH as root. Quote Link to comment
bonienl Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 1 hour ago, Derek_ said: Hi Fluffy - yes you can. You'll need the SSH Plugin which allows you to setup a user with a home and /bin/bash profile. I use my "backup-user" to SSH into unRAID and i've actually disabled SSH as root. I don't recommend to do this. The Unraid system uses "users" differently from traditional linux systems. Quote Link to comment
Derek_ Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 4 minutes ago, bonienl said: I don't recommend to do this. The Unraid system uses "users" differently from traditional linux systems. It seems to work fine for me at least - it allows the owner of my backed-up files to be that user, and means i don't have to SSH as root. Maybe it depends what you're trying to do? Do you know of any specific side-affects? Quote Link to comment
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