rsync.net 101
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The following is a copy of the basic tutorial that rsync.net sent over to me when I signed up for their service.
The login information above provides everything you need to access your filesystem, however some examples may be helpful:
scp /some/file user@user.rsync.net:
rsync -avz /some/file user@user.rsync.net:
Yes, the trailing ':' at the beginning of the remote path IS necessary.
Note in these two examples that you do NOT need to specify a home, or "starting" directory.
If you wish to specify the location of a remote directory in your rsync.net account, you do it WITHOUT a preceding '/':
scp /some/file user@user.rsync.net:some/directory/tree
OR:
rsync -avz /some/file user@user.rsync.net:other/dir/tree
If you are simply connecting via FTP or SFTP, nothing is needed but the username and hostname:
ftp user@user.rsync.net
sftp user@user.rsync.net
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This email has been sent in clear text, so you should immediately change your password. UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X users can do this in the terminal:
ssh -t user@user.rsync.net passwd
Windows users may set their password the same way, using the 'plink' command on the command line:
https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/windows_plink.html
Please also note that the password for the web based login (mentioned below) needs to be updated separately from within the Account Manager interface. Your Account Manager and storage account passwords are not linked.
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Configuration and settings of your account, including: account size, geo-redundancy, idle alerts and billing can all be managed with our web based account manager:
https://www.rsync.net/am/dashboard.html?u=de1682
You can also view your quota and run simple UNIX commands over SSH:
ssh user@user.rsync.net quota
For a list of all commands that you can run over SSH, please see: https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/remote_commands.html
Windows users can run these same commands using the 'plink' command: https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/windows_plink.html
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Your home directory contains a .ssh directory that you can place an authorized_keys file in, which will allow you to interact with your filesystem in an automated fashion. There is a detailed HOWTO on this topic here:
https://rsync.net/resources/howto/ssh_keys.html
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rsync.net automatically creates and maintains 7 days of snapshots, or versions, for you.
If you require more than 7 days (or 7 days + 4 weeks for 10+ TB accounts) please contact support@rsync.net.
You can read more about our filesystem snapshots here: https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/snapshots.html
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If you are backing up data to your filesystem directly from a NAS, please contact us first so that we may properly configure your filesystem to work with your NAS.
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If you need to use borg 1.x we recommend running your command as follows:
borg COMMAND --remote-path=borg1 ...
No special options are required to run borg 0.x
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You can verify our SSH key fingerprints here:
https://www.rsync.net/resources/fingerprints.txt
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Basic usage examples can be found at https://www.rsync.net/resources/index.html
Again, we are very happy to have you as a customer and look forward to serving you in any way that we can.
-- The rsync.net Team - support@rsync.net