On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Delta <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am going to use backuppc for the first time and would like to know how to > backup the /etc and /home local on the machine/server with BackupPC. Any > issues regarding permissions would be great to know and what to set where so > I do not get any errors. I would also like to know as which user does > backuppc run and in which groups must this user be? Also if a file can not > be accessed what do I need to do to get backuppc to access the files. And if > a user has sensitive information that he/she does not want to be public, > could that be encrypted and still be backed-up with backuppc.
I don't know that I can answer all of your questions but I'll give my $0.02.. Keep in mind I'm using it for a home network of 3 Fedora based computers so you may have to tweak some of the info for Ubuntu. Theoretically you could skip the ssh portion of the rsync on your local backups, however, if your system is like Fedora and the backuppc service runs as user:group backuppc:backuppc, then you would have to do something about the permissions/groups so it may be best to stick with ssh authentication as root even though it's additional overhead you wouldn't otherwise need. This *should* prevent any access issues. As far as data encryption, if it's done on a per file bases then BackupPC will just backup the encrypted file like it would any other. I'm making an assumption that you already have BackupPC running and backing up remote hosts and you understand how passwordless authentication works using public/private rsa key sets. It's something that took a while for me to wrap my head around. If not, I can try to explain but there are good howto's available only a google search away. Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
