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

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

Jose Torres 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.

What have you changed in the configuration?  You should be able to see 
the command issued to collect the data in the XferLOG for the backup run 
(on the same screen, below where you see the backups listed). It should 
say something like this near the top:
Running: /usr/bin/ssh -C -l root twiki /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender 
--numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D ...more options...

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

You must be running some other command, then.

> 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).

That sounds like a bad idea.  Better to use ssh or su to run as a user 
that already has access.  Someone has already considered the security of 
these approaches.  And it's going to depend on the security of the 
backuppc server's filesystem any way you look at it.

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   Les Mikesell
    les...@gm...