From bc9a44dc73b892e39cfa7693c90fec50d37e9b95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Albert Dengg Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:33:03 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] add some further documentation on the sftp backend * document that password auth and passowrd protected keys are not supported * document the configuration via ~/.ssh/config * document that the host key already has to be in ~/.ssh/known_hosts --- README | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 601c043..19188f7 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Dependencies: http://code.google.com/p/boto - paramiko, SSH2 protocol for python (for sftp storage) http://www.lag.net/paramiko/ + - python 2.5+ for sftp storage backend Building should be a simple matter of running "make". This will produce an executable called "cumulus". @@ -151,6 +152,11 @@ Supported URL forms are (Expects the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables to be set appropriately) sftp://server/path Storage on sftp server + (note that no password authentication or password protected + authorization keys are not supported atm and config options + like port or individual authorization keys are to be + configured in ~/.ssh/config and the public key of the + server has to be in ~/.ssh/known_hosts) To copy backup snapshots from one storage area to another, the cumulus-sync command can be used, as in -- 2.20.1