I have got backuppc up and running and I was able to add a host and setup
ssh passwordless logins fine. It does seem to do a full backup but it
doesn't show up in backups if i click on browse backups. Also, if i click on
the host and try to click on log file it says cannot open log file. I'm not
su
Guido,
The "--server --sender" options are merely security measures to ensure
that if someone were to gain access to the backuppc account on a host,
they could not run the rsync command as root with any and all switches.
BTW, if you are using linux, the syntax is wrong in the FAQ. The line
sho
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 03:59:51PM +0200, Guido Schmidt wrote:
> I logged in manually and managed to sudo rsync. As long as I left out
> the options --server and --sender in /etc/sudoers I was able to do some
> rsyncs locally on that client, but with these options enabled rsync
> seems to just h
yes, corruption can happen silently in the background! regular fsck can
catch these while they are correctable or before they cause any major loss.
ext3 and xfs have no mechanism for online fault correction to detect silent
corruption. ZFS has this mechanism but I don't believe many people are
us
I'm using backuppc 3.0 successfully for some time with our LAN-clients
via rsyncd. Now I'm trying to backup a WAN-client with rsync via SSH as
explained in the FAQ (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/ssh.html).
The ssh-login connects cleanly with no prompts to a restricted account.
From that
