[K12OSN] ot BackupPC linux client setup

Mark Gumprecht gumprechtm at msln.net
Mon May 16 13:27:20 UTC 2005


I followed some directions that said I should use apache as the user 
instead of backuppc. I believe this is where the problem comes in. I 
need to go back and setup as the backuppc user instead.
mark
Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 06:00, Mark Gumprecht wrote:
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>>I've had no problems with the windows setup with rsynd, but I can not 
>>seem to get the rsync to work on the linux client. Does any one have a 
>>howto on this? I have tried the online docs 3 times and can not seem to 
>>get it to work.
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>You can run a standalone rsync daemon on Linux too, but the normal
>way is to run it over ssh.  You first need to set up the ssh
>keys for passwordless remote execution, and the place most people
>go wrong with backuppc is doing this as root on the server side.
>You need to run as the backuppc user when generating your keys
>but add them to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2 on the remote side.
>Test by executing as the backuppc user:
>ssh -lroot target_client id
>You should get a prompt about an unrecognized host the first
>time you do this, then it should work with no prompts.  When
>it reports your id as root, backuppc should be able to run
>backups with tar or rsync.
>
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Mark Gumprecht
Data Systems Specialist
MSAD3
Unity, ME
gumprechtm at msln.net




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