Re: [BackupPC-users] Setup of rsync via SSH with unprivileged user 'backuppc'

2015-03-14 Thread Brad Alexander
Angus, Great write up. Mine is set up in a similar manner, though I need to find time to switch out my dsa keys for rsa. However, have the following stub for my /etc/sudoers.d: Cmnd_AliasBACKUP=/bin/tar, /usr/bin/rsync, /usr/bin/mysqldump, /usr/local/sbin/dbdump backuppcALL=NOPASSWD

[BackupPC-users] Pluggable setup

2015-03-14 Thread Mauro Condarelli
Hi, I need to backup a large (6T+) NAS on some removable storage. Since I have lots of duplicates I would really like to use BackupPC for the task. I would thus like to set-up several external hard drives (<2T) with BackupPC each dedicated to backup a subset of the NAS. When one of the removables

[BackupPC-users] Setup of rsync via SSH with unprivileged user 'backuppc'

2015-03-14 Thread Angus Kerr
Hi I really struggled to get this working. I thought it might be a good idea to update the section. I've edited the ssh section to tailor it specifically to cater for an unprivileged user 'backuppc' I've included it below, it may be useful to some and hopefully it could be incorporated in