[BackupPC-users] specifying differerent user in RsyncClientCmd

[itismike <bac...@ba...>]

I'm running an Ubuntu client with ecryptFS enabled. Since my home directory is encrypted, I'd like to perform the backup as myself rather than root so the files are browsable by me and restore is possible. Here is another thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10082444&postcount=4) that explains the reason for this setup.

So my intent is to put my username in the RsyncClientCmd and RsyncClientRestoreCmd commands like this:
$sshPath -q -x -l michael $host $rsyncPath $argList+

The problem is I haven't been able to get past the message below:
2011-01-16 14:03:16 full backup started for directory /
2011-01-16 14:03:17 Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes)
2011-01-16 14:03:22 Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes)

Google tells me this points to an inability to ssh to the box, but I set up ssh-keygen and can establish passwordless ssh connections between the server and client (and vice-versa.)

Am I going about this whole solution backwards, or if not, how can I diagnose this a little better?

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