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

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

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Jose Torres <jet...@co...> wrote:
> 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).

Can you post the contents of your '/etc/BackupPC/hosts' file?

> 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).

The short answer is your don't. If you're trying to back up all/most
of your system then you need some sort of root access. There are ways
to not ssh as root using sudo but it may be better to get your backup
working as root before you try it.

Richard