Schedule rsync at a specific time and with password input

[h2009]

Hi there
I was wondering if some one could help me. I'm trying out ubuntu and I would like to run a rsync command which needs a password input before the sync will start.

But the part i need some help in is how to get this rsync to work at a given time & day in the week as well as inputting the password when needed.

I know this isn't the most secure method of doing things but its a temp work around I need for the moment.


thanks

 

[JHeaton]

Edit: I need to read. When you run rsync, can you pass the password through the command line (I've never used it, I'll admit)?

For scheduling it, you can use cron.

 

[JonJ678]

It's difficult to imagine a situation where you would need to enter a password for use with rsync. If you're running it locally, then you could just run it as root. If it's over a network, tunnel it over ssh and set ssh up for passwordless connection.

The syntax is something like
rsync -a -e 'ssh -p portnumber' dir1 dir2

Otherwise you're stuck with writing the password in a text file, changing the permissions on it, and reading it into the program as and when required. Something terrible like '-p `cat /root/password.txt`' is likely to result. This will work, but isn't pretty.

Cron is the obvious way to go for scheduling the command.