Hi, I set up BackupPC on an old Linux box I had (with a clean OS install) and
got it backing up itself fine. I then added my laptop to the pool and it
seemed to back that up ok, but when I checked the backup I found that it had
actually backed the local backup server again, instead of the remote laptop. I
have a reference to the LT "laptopbig" in the server's /etc/hosts file, with
the LT's static IP address and I can ping it and ssh onto it using ssh
user@laptopbig fine. I set up ssh keys for the backuppc user and the command
su -s /bin/sh -c "ssh root@laptopbig ls -l /home/user/r*" backuppc
successfully lists all the files in my home directory on my LT that begin with
r, so the remote connection is working ok, also if I replace the ls command
with touch /home/user/rootest.txt it creates a file in there with an owner of
root, so it's going in as the correct user. I set up the file manually, which
could have been my downfall, copying it from the localhost.pl and calling it
laptopbig.pl:-
#
# Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc
#
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync';
$Conf{TarShareName} = ['/etc'];
$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo $rsyncPath $argList+';
$Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo $rsyncPath $argList+';
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['/'];
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['lost+found','/var/run/*','/var/tmp/*','/var/lock/*
','/dev','/proc','/sys/*','/media/*','/tmp/*','/data/Complete/*'];
# remove extra shell escapes ($fileList+ etc.) that are
# needed for remote backups but may break local ones
but I can't see anything immediately obvious in there that would specify the
local host as the target - the only references to it seem to be in the comments
I also added an entry into the BackupPC's hosts file:-
laptopbig 0 backuppc
any ideas regarding what I did wrong?
Thanks, MH
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