Skip - take a look at this how-to for centos. Aside from setting up repos the sudo and ssh key tutorials should apply: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC
Skip Guenter wrote: > I have been looking at this and back to a how-to I was trying to follow. > For the case of backing up the localhost (c17-desktop) & trying to > exclude the /var/lib/backuppc directory where c17-desktop is the > BackupPC server... > > I can not follow where to copy ssh keys to/from. Does anybody have time > to baby step me thru this? > > When I do: "sudo su backuppc" > followed by: "ssh -x -l backuppc c17-desktop date" > i get: "ssh: connect to host c17-desktop port 22: Connection refused" > Which I believe ya'll are telling me is because I don't have ssh-keys > set up correctly. > > I do have user backuppc set up to be able to run rsync w/o a password > via: "sudo visudo" > which shows: > # User privilege specification > root ALL=(ALL) ALL > backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD: /user/bin/rsync > > Thanx in advance, Skip / / ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
