Very nice tip Kim, thank you also. :-)
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On Tuesday, May 6th, 2025 at 1:06 PM, Kim Scarborough
wrote:
> > Also you need to SSH from the backuppc server (using the backuppc user)
> > to each client once manually to populate authorized_keys.
>
>
> Just a q
Jamie, you're a gentle man and a scholar! Thank you, thank you.
Works wonderfully.
On Tuesday, May 6th, 2025 at 11:00 AM, Jamie Burchell wrote:
> Relevant rsync config (note use of sudo):
>
> $Conf{RsyncClientPath} = 'sudo /usr/bin/rsync';
>
> $Conf{RsyncBackupPCPath} = '/usr/bin/rsync_bpc';
>
Also you need to SSH from the backuppc server (using the backuppc user)
to each client once manually to populate authorized_keys.
Just a quick note: you can avoid the need to do this by setting this in
backuppc's .ssh/config:
Host *
StrictHostKeyChecking accept-new
With that setting,
Relevant rsync config (note use of sudo):
$Conf{RsyncClientPath} = 'sudo /usr/bin/rsync';
$Conf{RsyncBackupPCPath} = '/usr/bin/rsync_bpc';
$Conf{RsyncSshArgs} = [
'-e',
'$sshPath -l backuppc'
];
$Conf{RsyncArgs} = [
'--super',
'--recursive',
'--protect-args',
'--numeric-ids
I see references in the documentation on the ability to backup via rsync
combined with sudo but have been unable to make it work. Would anyone that has
it working with BackupPC 4.4.0 mind sending their
/etc/BackupPC/pc/servername.example.com.pl file please?
I have BackupPC 4 installed via RPM o
Hello,
Sometimes backing up a share produce a lot of logging messages in the XferLOG.
Can I disable that?
Running: /usr/libexec/backuppc-rsync/rsync_bpc --bpc-top-dir
/var/lib/backuppc --bpc-host-name
athlux --bpc-share-name root --bpc-bkup-num 4342 --bpc-bkup-comp 0
--bpc-bkup-prevnum 4
