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Back up a VPS Web Host using SSH and SCP on Mac OSX 10.6

Using SSH and SCP you can copy your remote web VPS backups to your local machine in a secure manner and then by creating a back up script you can either run the script adhoc or schedule the process with a user launch agent. The first step is to create a SSH passwordless connection between [...]

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Secure Remote SSH Connection with no passwords OSX 10.7 and Linux

How to generate public and private keys for SSH on Mac OS X 10.7 and then share that public key no so password is prompted for a secure connection with a remote computer. First thing that you need to do is to create a directory that will store your SSH keys and then generate a [...]

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Open Directory Replica Fails to Replicate, OS X Server

There are a few gotchas when trying to set up an Open Directory Replica from an Open Directory Master on OS X Server 10.6 Snow Leopard.   1) DNS – First thing is that DNS has to be set up perfectly so you get forward and reverse look ups that match the FQDN and the [...]

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