Thanks Brian ...

but I don't know how to do either of those things ???


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> That's rsync over ssh so you can use pub key auth.
> Or do it over tcp/873 and use $RSYNC_PASSWORD

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>> On Jan 27, 2014 joe wrote:
>>
>> rsync question:
>>
>> I have a shell script similar to the following (but longer) that I use
>> to copy/sync/backup selected directories and files from my main
>> computer
>> to a backup computer and also to copy/sync/backup those selected
>> directories and files to my web-hosted space.
>>
>> This all works fine, except I have to enter the password for each
>> segment.
>> Is there some way that I could embed the password in this shell script
>> so
>> I do not have to manually type the password each time?
>>
>> echo "starting files copy/sync/backup"
>>
>> rsync -avH --delete --progress /home/joe/dir1/
>> joe@192.168.0.64:/home/joe/dir1/
>> rsync -avH --delete --progress /home/joe/dir2/
>> joe@192.168.0.64:/home/joe/dir2/
>> rsync -avH --delete --progress /home/joe/dir3/
>> joe@192.168.0.64:/home/joe/dir3/
>>
>> rsync -avHp --progress /home/joe/dir1/
>> website@box123.bluehost.com:www/dir1/
>> rsync -avHp --progress /home/joe/dir2/
>> website@box123.bluehost.com:www/dir2/
>> rsync -avHp --progress /home/joe/dir3/
>> website@box123.bluehost.com:www/dir3/
>>
>> echo "FINISHED"



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