Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup logging in through sshd several times

[chuck odonnell]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 10:31:48AM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 09/05/2012 07:33 AM, weloki wrote:
>>weloki wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been receiving logwatch reports each day from my servers and
>>> I notice after each backup that rdiff-backup connected via SSH
>>> many times, like from over 100 to 300 times per backup
>>> session. Why is this? Does it need to do that in order to function
>>> properly?
>>>
>>
>> Is anyone else seeing this? Is there a way to have rdiff-backup
>> login just once through SSH to perform a daily backup?
> 
> I see just one ssh login per rdiff-backup session.  I am pushing my
> backups from the client to the server (source is local, destination
> is remote).  From your description, it sounds like that is what you
> are doing, too.  Your situation might be entirely different if you
> are controlling the backups from the server and pulling from the
> clients.  I've never tried that.
> 

In my case the server acts as master and pulls from the clients
(source is remote, destination local).

On each client I see a single extended ssh login per night.