It's important to NOT use scp to copy the backup from the backed-up machine to the backup destination. The only safe route is for you to get the backup destina

It's important to NOT use scp to copy the backup from the backed-up machine to the backup destination. The only safe route is for you to get the backup destination to "pull" from your server using scp with RSA keys. This is to prevent hackers from compromising your backups, because they have no access to them if you don't store the authentication information on the server.