Re: [rdiff-backup-users] wiki suggestions

[Dave Kempe]

address@hidden wrote:
> 1. I found that generating an SSH key pair with "puttygen.exe"
> generates keys in a Putty-specific format which therefore can not be
> imported into Linux.  Despite munging them in various obvious ways
> (trying to make them look like keys from ssh-keygen) I couldn't
> get them to work.  There is a web page "Using Putty on Windows to
> [sic] login Linux securely via OpenSSH" which has very succinct
> directions for generating keys with OpenSSH and then converting them
> into Putty's format using puttygen.exe.  I humbly suggest the
> BackupFromWindowsToLinux wiki page plagiarized that information:
>   
doesn't puttygen have a function to save the key as openssh format keys?
just save em as that and go from there.
You can open up older private key files and export as well.

> 2. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to a full backup of
> C:\ going.  The magic is to escape the "\" with "//".  For example...
>
>   rdiff-backup.exe -v5 --no-hard-links --print-statistics
>     --remote-schema "plink.exe -i privatekey.ppk
>     %s rdiff-backup --server" c://\
>     address@hidden::/destinationdirectory
>
> That too ought to be mentioned, me thinks, for obvious reasons.
>
>
>   
thats useful. surely registering and updating the wiki is not too heavy 
a cost to return to the community for useful software? :)

thanks
dave