[Duplicity-talk] Sigh

[JonathanSmith]

I was hoping for some competency, so that it would be unnecessary to 
subscribe to yet another list. No such luck, so now I have to ask for 
help. I currently am being prompted "Enter passphrase for key 
'/root/.ssh/id_rsa':" for each segment of a backup that goes to the 
backup server.


How can I avoid this frustration so that I can can have automated remote 
backup with duplicity? And, please, before making recommendations on 
changes to the backup server, please note that I lack such access.

It had looked good <http://jcwinnie.biz/wordpress/?p=910> I followed the 
instructions from Carlos Justiniano 
<http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-backup/?ca=dgr-lnxw09Backup#Resources> 
on how to achieve automated backups of a Linux system via a distributed 
network using secure remote access. I wrote a script and thought that I 
had configured successfully the system so as to avoid prompting for 
either my remote access password or gpg passphrase. 
<http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/duplicity-talk/2005-02/msg00000.html>

Backup ran for about 35 hours and then stopped without indication of a 
successful full backup. Today, I ran the script again and received the 
following message: "Warning, found incomplete backup sets, probably left 
from aborted session
No signatures found, switching to full backup."

It has begun transfer of segments, yet I am prompted each time for a 
password. I think this comes under cruel and unusual punishment of my 
stupidity. In any case, I would appreciate your help.

I depend upon rdiff-backup for backing up system files to a separate 
hard drive on the same system and wanted the extra insurance of having a 
remote copy.