[BackupPC-users] Backing up a Mac client - Help needed

[David W. <dwi...@dt...>]

Hi,

I’ve been using BackupPC for quite a number of years now and I’ve mainly used it to backup my Linux server and my windows laptop.  I recently bought a Mac and have been setting it up and I’ve had partial success, but it is backing files up :)

With windows I was was using SMB protocol to backup the laptop and this was fairly straight forward in that smbclient would log into to Windows laptop as a certain user and as such had access to all that users files.  On my Linux server I didn’t need any type of access since that is where backupPC sits, so again very easy.

For the Mac I am using rsyncd which took a little while to work out how to set up but that seems to be working now.  There is one area that I am not clear on though and I’m hoping that someone on here could help me out.  With rsyncd there is a config file (not that dissimilar to Samba) and there is a secrets file for the username and password.  I was assuming that the user I set up within this secrets file, if it was the same as my Mac user would have full access to my files, but that doesn’t appear to be the case, so I think I am missing something.  I am trying to back up files in my /Users/dwilliams directory.  So, my Mac login is dwilliams.  Of course, as dwilliams I have full access to all files under /Users/dwilliams.  However, when backuppc connects to my Mac laptop as dwilliams (the one from the secrets file I assume) it doesn’t have access to all the files under /Users/dwilliams.  I really don’t want to have to play around with all the directory and file permissions unless it’s really necessary but I’m hopeful that I’m just missing something here.

Is there a way to rsync to my Mac as the actual dwilliams Mac user so that I have complete access to /Users/dwilliams?

Failing that, what is the best way of moving forward?

Any help on this would be much appreciated.

Regards,
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Dave Williams
Senior Oracle MDM & Financials Consultant