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Why does rsync look for DSA instead of RSA key when run from cron job?

I want to backup files from a server to my local computer using rsync. I can only log-in to the server with an RSA ssh key. I have stored the passphrase to the key in Seahorse Passwords and Keys, ...
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Trying to create a cron to Rsync then tar the folder

I'm stuck at the first hurdle! I want to run a couple of commands from a bash script. First something like this to rsync some directories: rsync -e ssh -az user-whatever@website.com:/home ...
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Using rsync in a cronjob when a password is needed

Basically I have a bash script that fetches data from my server to perform a backup. As it is now I have to start that script manually, enter the password, and then wait for it to finish. I would ...
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Using rsync + cron to sync a machine behind a firewall with my dropbox

I have a machine (A) behind a firewall with no access to the Internet, on this machine I can NFS mount directories on another machine (B) which can access internet, and is accessible from Internet, ...
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Cron: My crontabs don't seem to be doing anything at all

I think I'm missing something. I've set up some crontabs to handle rsyncs over ssh in my office to handle some backups, but they don't seem to be running OR logging, for that matter. Am I missing ...