How To Change Rsync SSH Port While Backup

Here is a simple way to backup your homedir via rsync
but the other thing is we will try to rsync via unusual ssh port.

Example :

Backup /home/testing to server.wowtutorial.org at port 7000

#rsync -av -e 'ssh -p 7000' /home/testing backupuser@server.wowtutorial.org

What is DenyHosts?

DenyHosts is a script intended to be run by Linux system administrators to help thwart SSH server attacks (also known as dictionary based attacks and brute force attacks).

What is Smokeping?

SmokePing does not stand alone. It relies on various other tools and services being present. Apart from a Unix OS and a working Perl installation you need the following things. The list contains the names of the tools together with the version of the tool which I am using, and a link for downloading the tool.

Preparing anything to install Smokeping

Download Smokeping : http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/smokeping-2.4.2.tar.gz

SCP command come from SSH package that can copy files between computers on a network and move stuff around as required. It's a very usefull for sharing files with others using data on more than one system, and downloading files fro backup onto a second system.

This tutorial is intended to provide you a basic information you need to use SCP command.

Secure file transfers to and from local or remote systems can be initiated with the scp UNIX command.

To use the scp command to copy files between serverss, use the following command:

Preliminary notes

In this case I use a Windows desktop to connect to a Linux Fedora 7 SSH server with IP address 192.168.100.16.

Download putty.exe and puttygen.exe

Download putty.exe and puttygen.exe on the Windows system :
http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe
http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/puttygen.exe

Generate key with puttygen

How To Change SSH Default Port
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Below is the simple steps how to change ssh default port.
Example, i will change the ssh default port from 22 TCP to 3210 TCP.
First you need to login into your server as root user via putty
From your ssh session, edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config

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#vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
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