I do not recommend one solution or the other, both work. I prefer (2).
The configuration is easier to read if you find the mount-point of
file-systems directly under /. And, according to the man-pages, --bind
is not obsolete, -o bind might be. This documentation comes with the
kernel, I
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Holger Parplies wrote:
actually, ssh is most useful for inter-realm access. On my local intranet,
password and data snooping are not a real threat. I use ssh anyway, out of
habit.
Surely it is quite difficult to use anything else on a Linux system?
What is the
Timothy Murphy wrote:
The rest is setting up ssh to work as root on the clients,
and this requires 3 steps:
1. ssh-keygen as root on the client
You don't need to run ssh-keygen on the clients, only on the BackupPC
server. You copy the public key that is generated on the BackupPC
server to
Les Mikesell wrote:
In my case the only change on the clients
is to specify the directories I want to backup,
and the only change on the server is to specify which machines
are allowed to access it.
The rest is setting up ssh to work as root on the clients,
and this requires 3 steps:
1.
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
Sorry, /etc/BackupPC/config.pl is 2165 lines long.
I've no intention of reading that.
Life is too short.
If you're serious about doing backups, I recommend you really read
through the configuration. I read all of it and afterwards I
understood a lot more
Hi,
Timothy Murphy wrote on 2008-12-27 12:19:48 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] sshd on
client?]:
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Sorry, /etc/BackupPC/config.pl is 2165 lines long.
I've no intention of reading that.
Life is too short.
so you'd rather spend your and our
Timothy Murphy wrote:
1. ssh-keygen as root on the client
2. scp .ssh/id_rsa.pub from /root on the client to the server
and append to ~backuppc/.ssh/authorized_keys .
You have that backwards. The private side of the key pair belongs in
the .ssh directory under the home of the originator
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Sorry, /etc/BackupPC/config.pl is 2165 lines long.
I've no intention of reading that.
Life is too short.
If you're serious about doing backups, I recommend you really read
through the configuration. I read all of it and afterwards I
understood a lot more about how
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
Sorry, /etc/BackupPC/config.pl is 2165 lines long.
I've no intention of reading that.
Life is too short.
If you're serious about doing backups, I recommend you really read
through the configuration. I read all of it and afterwards I
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
I read that a new release (3.1.1) of backuppc is being prepared -
short
of fixing this problem, it might be a good idea to add a couple of
words
to the documentation, warning about this restriction in the
configurability of the topDir variable.
There
Hi all.
I've Backuppc working fine without any probs on a handful of domestic
PCs. The data isn't commercially vital, but obviously of significant
personal value - family photos, homework, accounts, exam preparation
stuff, etc, etc for other family members.
I can Backuppc archive onto DVD, but
Holger Parplies wrote:
Sorry, /etc/BackupPC/config.pl is 2165 lines long.
I've no intention of reading that.
Life is too short.
so you'd rather spend your and our time discussing why your setup is not
working? Well, thanks a lot. Life is too short to bother helping you then.
Have you
Les Mikesell wrote:
This seems to me rather important.
Are you saying that my setup is wrong?
Yes, although it wouldn't work if you didn't also do it right. You can
have as many different keypairs as you like.
I'm not sure what you are saying.
I tried the instructions I gave on a laptop
Timothy Murphy wrote:
This seems to me rather important.
Are you saying that my setup is wrong?
Yes, although it wouldn't work if you didn't also do it right. You can
have as many different keypairs as you like.
I'm not sure what you are saying.
I'm saying that making keypairs on the
Timothy Murphy wrote:
I do see what you are saying, and I will think about it.
The instructions I followed were taken from one of the many tutorials
I looked at.
Where did you find one that said you had to generate keys on the clients?
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
Edward Parker edw...@albany.me.uk wrote on 12/27/2008 03:07:40 PM:
What I'd like to be able to do is to produce archives in such a way as
to be able to point others at a set of DVDs that they can usefully use,
even after I've fallen under a bus (say)...
Ideal would be in an uncompressed
Hi,
Les Mikesell wrote on 2008-12-27 17:05:07 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] sshd on
client?]:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
This seems to me rather important.
Are you saying that my setup is wrong?
Yes, although it wouldn't work if you didn't also do it right. You can
have as many different
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