[BackupPC-users] Rsync ignores username all of a sudden

[Brian J. <mar...@gm...>]

I recently upgraded to the 22.04 LTS of Ubuntu, and I'm guessing I now 
have the v4 of backuppc.  Prior to this, both my local and remote (same 
lan) backups were working fine via rsync.

On the remote host, I connect via the backuppc user and root ssh key 
(backuppc can ssh as root on the remote host without a password).  I 
manually tested rsync from command line and I can transfer a file with 
no prompts.

The remote backups were failing, so I watched the secure logs and they 
show the process connecting to the remote host as 'backuppc' instead of 
'root'.  I have the user for that host configured correctly.

In the end, I had to add Rsyncssh options to the <host>.pl so it would 
connect with the correct user.  Why does backuppc ignore the configured 
user for that host?

thanks,

Brian J