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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers scp of multiple files to remote server Post 302991941 by drysdalk on Sunday 19th of February 2017 04:57:10 AM
Old 02-19-2017
Hi,

As an aside from the actual script: is it possible you could use SSH key-based authentication, rather than passwords ? This would enable you to connect without having to supply a password, with authentication taking place by means of a key exchange. This way you could transfer as many files as you liked as often as you liked without having to type in anything (though doing it in as few transfers as possible as per the solution you've been given is definitely a better way to go regardless).

If the source and destination servers are running OpenSSH, then the idea is that you would first generate a DSA or RSA public key for yourself. You might in fact find that you've got one or both of these already, stored as '.ssh/id_dsa.pub' or '.ssh/id_rsa.pub' underneath your home directory. Next, you must add the contents of your public key file to '.ssh/authorized_keys' in the home directory of the receiving account on the destination server.

After doing that you should be able to log in without being prompted for a password at all, so long as the permissions on all appropriate files and directories are secure enough at both ends. Essentially they must be accessible only by the user to whom the account belongs, more or less. Just a thought, if that's an option for you.
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backup-manager-upload

BACKUP-MANAGER-UPLOAD(8)				       backup-manager-upload					  BACKUP-MANAGER-UPLOAD(8)

NAME

       backup-manager-upload - Multiprotocol uploader for backup-manager.

SYNOPSIS

       backup-manager-upload [options] date

DESCRIPTION

       backup-manager-upload will upload all the archives generated on the given date to the specified host with either ftp or scp.  It's also
       possible to use this program for uploading data to an Amazon S3 account.  Some metadates are available like "today" or "yesterday".

REQUIRED ARGS

       --mode=transfer-mode
	   Select the transfer mode to use : ftp, scp, or s3.

       --host=hostname1,hostname2,...,hostnameN
	   Select a list of remote hosts to connect to.

       --user=username
	   Select the user to use for connection.

OPTIONAL ARGS

       --password=password
	   Select the ftp user's password (only needed for ftp transfers).

       --key=path_to_private_key
	   Select the ssh private key file to use when opening the ssh session for scp transfer.  Obviously, this is only needed for scp transfer
	   mode.  If you don't specify a key file, the user's default private key will be used.

       --directory=directory
	   Select the location on the remote host where files will be uploaded.  Default is /backup/uploads.

       --bucket=bucket
	   Sets the bucket name for the Amazon S3 service backup into.

       --root=directory
	   Select the local directory where files are.	Default is /var/archives

       --gpg-recipient=gpg-recipient
	   Select the gpg public key for encryptiong the archives when uploading with the method ssh-gpg. This can be a short or long key id or a
	   descriptive name. The precise syntax is described in the gpg man page.

       --list
	   Just list the files to upload.

       --ftp-purge
	   Purge the remote directory before uploading files in FTP mode.

       --s3-purge
	   Purge the remote directory before uploading files in FTP mode.

       --ssh-purge
	   Purge the remote directory before uploading files in SSH mode.

       --verbose
	   Flag to enable verbose mode.

       date
	   Date pattern to select some files to upload, can be a valid date (YYYYMMDD) or 'today' or 'yesterday'.

ERROR CODES

       If something goes wrong during an upload, backup-manager-upload will exit with a non null value. In such a case every error messages are
       sent to STDERR.

       Here are the possible error codes:

       bad command line (wrong arguments) : 10
       FTP transfer failure : 20
       SCP transfer failure : 21
       S3 transfer failure : 22
       Unknown upload method: 23

SEE ALSO

       backup-manager(3)

AUTHORS

       Alexis Sukrieh - main code and design

       Brad Dixon - Amazon S3 upload method

       Jan Metzger - ssh-gpg upload method

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