[NBLUG/talk] Root and SSH questions..

[Steve Johnson]

I run a colocated server at sonic.net, and in the past I use to tar up 
everything and then just scp it over to my box at home as a backup, this 
worked fine.  But now I want to use rsync and just mirror everything on 
my spare hard drive at home..  But it seems to do this effectivly I need 
to login into my colo as root via rsync and ssh.

I always leave root login not allowed on my sshd_config.. So I'm 
wondering how bad would it be to allow root into ssh?  Am I asking for 
problems with this?

Is there another solution to be able to back everything up with rsync? 
rsync seems to be the best solution, the things I like about it are that 
it only backs up changes and it also has a bandwidth limiting flag so it 
doesnt kill me DSL while doing the backup.

THis is for a colo server this is more a hobby server then anything. 
The web sites I run on it are not commercial but a couple of them are 
pretty popular (www.adnd.com and www.shrineofhope.com)  So a commercial 
solution is no feasable.

Anyhelp ius appreciated =)

-Steve