Have a look at technical.network , there is a guide there that mainly uses backuppc user (not root) to backup clients via rsync.
Muhammad Ibrahim Director | Broadband9 ibrahim@broadband9.com01706404099 http://broadband9.co.uk 206a Business First, Davyfield Road, ________________________________ From: Sorin Srbu <sorin.s...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 7:28:11 AM To: General list for user discussion, questions and support <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] new to BackupPC On Tue, 2021-02-02 at 17:09 +0000, Arnar Þórarinsson wrote: > Hello all, > I‘m a new user of BackupPC with some questions (moving away from Amanda). > OS: CentOS 8.3 > BackupPC version 4.4.0 > > I followed the guide on > https://kifarunix.com/install-and-configure-backuppc-on-centos-8/ > and all looks good but… > I don‘t like using the root user on the client side for backups, never allow > root to login via ssh. > So how do I generate ssh keys for the backuppc user on the server ? The user > backuppc does not own the /var/lib/BackupPC dir so it can‘t generate the keys. Hello! Something's fishy there, I followed the same guide recently (although for Ubuntu) and for me /var/lib/backuppc is owned by backuppc. Looking at the Backuppc-Ubuntu guide there is a step adding a backuppc user and setting a homedir as /var/lib/backuppc. https://kifarunix.com/install-and-setup-backuppc-server-on-ubuntu-20-04/ Maybe the guide for CentOS needs to be tweaked a bit? Otherwise, why not just chown the folder to the right permissions? -- Kind regards, Sorin Srbu Find my OpenPGP public key here: https://cloud.srbu.se/index.php/s/KeEsCCDsG7PZG7N
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