Re: [BackupPC-users] help! RsyncClientCmd howto in 4.3

2020-02-21 Thread Move your body
thanks Kris with your encouragement I managed a fix I changed $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} to use $Conf{RsyncShareName} also using as you suggested $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync'; $Conf{RsyncSshArgs} = [   '-e',   '$sshPath -x -l UserOne' ]; That worked , so thankfully I can use this BackupPC versi

Re: [BackupPC-users] help! RsyncClientCmd howto in 4.3

2020-02-18 Thread Kris Lou via BackupPC-users
Mine is pretty much stock. config.pl snippet # # Ssh arguments for rsync to run ssh to connect to the client. # Rather than permit root ssh on the client, it is more secure # to just allow ssh via a low-privileged user, and use sudo # in $Conf{RsyncClientPath}. # # This setting only matters if $C

[BackupPC-users] help! RsyncClientCmd howto in 4.3

2020-02-18 Thread Move your body
I have to redo an offsite backup server running since 2015. The OS disk died. I am fine with just making new backups, what I really do not have time for is reinventing the client backup configs. Can anyone help me? I found https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/issues/132 , so I know I am not