Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a Mac client - Help needed

2017-02-20 Thread Kris Lou
Generally, I just backup OSX in the same manner as Linux -- rsync over SSH. You can do this as your desired user to jump into a user home directory, but you'll have to make sure that user can login via SSH (and use rsync). But if rsyncd works, more power to you! -Kris Kris Lou k...@themusiclin

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a Mac client - Help needed

2017-02-20 Thread David Williams
I believe I may have found the answer to this. Isn’t that always the case!! Would I be correct in that the uid and gid parameters in the rsyncd.conf file would be the way to ensure which user and group the rsyncd process runs at? So, in the case below, I would ensure that the uid = dwilliams??

[BackupPC-users] Backing up a Mac client - Help needed

2017-02-20 Thread David Williams
Hi, I’ve been using BackupPC for quite a number of years now and I’ve mainly used it to backup my Linux server and my windows laptop. I recently bought a Mac and have been setting it up and I’ve had partial success, but it is backing files up :) With windows I was was using SMB protocol to ba