I don't use rsnapshot but you can set up arguments you pass to ssh, in which case you can selectively disable ControlMaster. If you can't, maybe rsnapshot respects .ssh/config so you can set up a Host entry with the relevant config. If you want to also use ControlMaster the host you connect to with rsnapshot, you can set up a Host with a dummy name and set its Hostname option to the real host.
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I don't use rsnapshot but you can set up arguments you pass to ssh, in which case you can selectively disable ControlMaster. If you can't, maybe rsnapshot respects .ssh/config so you can set up a Host entry with the relevant config. If you want to also use ControlMaster the host you connect to with rsnapshot, you can set up a Host with a dummy name and set its Hostname option to the real host.
> I don't use rsnapshot but you can set up arguments you pass to ssh, in which case you can selectively disable ControlMaster
Just FYI, that worked perfectly.
Some good ideas, thanks, I'll give it a shot. I really like the speed of the persistent connections.