Make your server trust your laptop+user:
#su - "your username here" $ssh-keygen -t rsa $scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub "remote_username"@"host_name":"target_filepath_for_key_on_the_server"
Now ssh into your server:
$ssh "remote_user"@"host_name" $cd ~/.ssh
Insert your laptop’s public key in the authorized keys list:
$cat "target_filepath_for_key_on_the_server" >> authorized_keys
Try ssh-ing your server again (this time you should not need to type a password:
$ssh "remote_user"@"host_name"
Create an alias for your server:
#nano /etc/ssh/ssh_config
and add this (customize it, please):
Host linode HostName portnumber53.com KeepAlive yes User httpd Compression yes
Now you should be able to ssh into your server like this:
$ssh linode
Now use this nice backup script:
#!/bin/bash pid=/tmp/linode.pid TODAY_FOLDER=/home/backup/`date +%Y-%m-%d --date "0 day ago"`/linode YESTERDAY_FOLDER=/home/backup/`date +%Y-%m-%d --date "1 day ago"`/linode if [ -e $pid ] then echo "Still running..." else touch $pid if [ ! -d $TODAY_FOLDER ]; then mkdir -p $TODAY_FOLDER echo "copying..." cp -alv $YESTERDAY_FOLDER/. $TODAY_FOLDER fi rsync --bwlimit=100 --force --no-p --progress --delete-before -aze ssh linode:~/ $TODAY_FOLDER rm $pid fi
and you will have full backups (while preserving spaces as the cp command creates hardlinks) daily