Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob Question Time... backup up localhost

2009-05-21 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2009-05-21 16:30:35 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob Question Time... backup up localhost]: > Skip Guenter wrote: > > [...] > > I do have user backuppc set up to be able to run rsync w/o a password > > via: "sudo visudo" > &g

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob Question Time... backup up localhost

2009-05-21 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Les Mikesell wrote at about 16:30:35 -0500 on Thursday, May 21, 2009: > Skip Guenter wrote: > > > > When I do: "sudo su backuppc" > > followed by: "ssh -x -l backuppc c17-desktop date" > > i get: "ssh: connect to host c17-desktop port 22: Connection refused" > > Which I believe ya'll are tel

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob Question Time... backup up localhost

2009-05-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Skip Guenter wrote: > > When I do: "sudo su backuppc" > followed by: "ssh -x -l backuppc c17-desktop date" > i get: "ssh: connect to host c17-desktop port 22: Connection refused" > Which I believe ya'll are telling me is because I don't have ssh-keys > set up correctly. No, you haven't gotten tha

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob Question Time... backup up localhost

2009-05-21 Thread Tim Cole
Skip - take a look at this how-to for centos. Aside from setting up repos the sudo and ssh key tutorials should apply: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC Skip Guenter wrote: > I have been looking at this and back to a how-to I was trying to follow. > For the case of backing up the localhost

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob Question Time... backup up localhost

2009-05-21 Thread Skip Guenter
I have been looking at this and back to a how-to I was trying to follow. For the case of backing up the localhost (c17-desktop) & trying to exclude the /var/lib/backuppc directory where c17-desktop is the BackupPC server... I can not follow where to copy ssh keys to/from. Does anybody have time t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob Question Time... backup up localhost

2009-05-21 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Skip Guenter wrote at about 03:25:53 -0500 on Thursday, May 21, 2009: > Duh, no. Thanx much. I think you may be confusing "no passwords" with no security. I assume the respondent (whom you answered remarkably rudely) meant did you set ssh up to use passkeys rather than passwords. As long as you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob Question Time... backup up localhost

2009-05-21 Thread Skip Guenter
Duh, no. Thanx much. On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 23:29 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Skip Guenter wrote: > > I'm guessing the error is a ssh problem from this: > > > > full backup started for directory / > > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root c17-desktop /usr/bin/rsync --server > > --sender --numeri

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob Question Time... backup up localhost

2009-05-20 Thread Les Mikesell
Skip Guenter wrote: > I'm guessing the error is a ssh problem from this: > > full backup started for directory / > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root c17-desktop /usr/bin/rsync --server > --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links > --times --block-size=2048 --recurs

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob Question Time... backup up localhost

2009-05-20 Thread Skip Guenter
I'm guessing the error is a ssh problem from this: full backup started for directory / Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root c17-desktop /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . / Xfer PIDs

[BackupPC-users] Noob Question Time... backup up localhost

2009-05-20 Thread Skip Guenter
I installed BackupPC from the Ubuntu repositories several days ago with the intent of getting it set up and running as soon as a HDD came in. Well last night I was reading thru some of the doc and took a look at the control webpage and much to my surprise saw that a host was there (localhost) and h