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

[Jose T. <jet...@co...>]

Still does not work.

1. I can ssh root@serverv2v2 without password from backuppc account but the
backuppc dump does not backup the intended machine.
I keep getting the data of (belongs to) the backup server (server2) instead
of the serverv2v2.

I know because the backup includes data that does not exist on serverv2v2
(home users path from server2).

2. By the way, how do I make the backuppc user to have read access to ALL
FILES on a Ubuntu/linux machine.  Making the backuppc user to belong to all
groups is the only thing that I could think of (making all files readable to
universe is out off the question).




-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Shaw [mailto:hob...@gm...] 
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 10:08 AM
To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems to backup linux network computer

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Jose Torres <jet...@co...> wrote:
> Someone suggested to use the serverv2v2 root account to connect the
backuppc
> user in the network, but for ssh is a security risk to allow root to
> connect, is there another way to configure the connection to a network
linux
> server to execute backuppc backups?
>
> By the way both linux servers are Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Sure, it doesn't absolutely require root access but the user you do
authenticate as does need to have access to the files.

How would you check this? The same way you check for passwordless ssh
access. SU as the user on the backup server you want to use, usually
backuppc. If they do not have a shell defined you must provide that in
the su command, something like:

su -s /bin/bash backuppc

Then ssh to the computer you want to backup as the user you want to use:

ssh <user>@server2v2

Then see if that user has at read access to the files you want to backup.

Hope this helps (and works since I'm by far not a backuppc expert!)

Richard

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