Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems to backup linux network computer

[Richard S. <hob...@gm...>]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Jose Torres <jet...@co...> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have installed BackupPC on the backup server and I am able to connect
> to web interface fine.  This server is called server2.
>
> I have a another server called serverv2v2 which I want to backup from
> the server2 machine.
>
> I can ssh backuppc@serverv2v2 without password from server2.

I think this is your problem here. I think you are ssh'ing from/to the
wrong users. You need to be able to ssh FROM backuppc@server2 to TO
root@server2v2 without a password for the backup to work.

> I added the serverv2v2 machine in the backuppc host file and created the
> serverv2v2.pl
>
> The machine has non-DHCP IP so I set the host DHCP to 0
>
> running nmblookup serverv2v2 fails, but ping serverv2v2 is succesfull.
> I have a DNS server in the same network.  Both server2 and serverv2v2
> are on the same subnet/mask and connect to each other using ssh.
>
> I set the ClientNameAlias of serverv2v2 to the static IP of serverv2v2
>
> I executed a manual Full backup for serverv2v2, but when I looked the
> backup content I see the files are not from serverv2v2, but instead are
> from server2