Usually the [SOLVED] tag implies that the problem has been discussed on the list already, but this was actually something I was about to post about and then realized the solution before hitting Send. However, as Eric Raymond said, all problems are shallow to someone...so here's the problem and solution for someone that may find this a "deeper" problem:
The hard disk that holds (well, held :p) all our backups died a couple of days ago (wheee!). Yesterday was a holiday, and when I came back today I had two mails with a bunch of hosts complaining that their backups failed, and looking at the errors in the BackupPC interface showed this: Fatal error (bad version): Host key verification failed. Basically, the problem was that the directory being used to hold the backups (/var/lib/backuppc/) was also the backuppc user account's home directory...and thus the location of the .ssh/ directory which contains the SSH private key. You'll need to re-generate the private key with "ssh-keygen", then populate it to the various hosts BackupPC needs to log in to (I recommend using ssh-copy-id for this purpose, but any method will work). Thanks for some kickass backup software, and hopefully this little tidbit will sit in the archives and eventually come up in someone's search results! -- John Buttery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> System Administrator ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
