Toni Van Remortel wrote: > Keith Edmunds wrote: >> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:47:52 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> >>> You could mount the removable drive on the BackupPC server as >>> /mnt/samba/data and then set ClientAliasName (for the specific host >>> you're backing up) to localhost. >> It's more complex than that. Following your suggestion would create a >> backup of /mnt/samba/data; it's unlikely that that is the correct location >> for the "real" server. We ended up setting up ssh and a chroot'd account >> so that the server could connect to itself via ssh and then backup the >> appropriate directories, and have them look as if they were the >> real /etc, /home, and so on. > > I've set up a dummy_host in /etc/hosts which points to 127.0.2.1 > I've set up a pre-shared ssh key for [EMAIL PROTECTED] in /home/backuppc/.ssh > And the backup has been set up to use ClientNameAlias as dummy_host. > > Works like a charm. Thank you guys for the tips.
Toni, how do you get the data to the localhost in the first place? -Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
