On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 16:49 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > Recent versions of rsync have changed their behavior so sockets
> > are included (and generally hang) if you specify --devices. Try
> > changing --devices with -D in $Conf{RsyncArgs} and
> > $Conf{RsyncRestoreArgs}.
>
> Awesome! This worked. Now I just have one more question: since I'm
> backing up localhost here, it's a bit of a waste to use ssh as the
> transport method. Can I just use:
>
> $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$rsyncPath $argList+';
>
> instead of:
>
> $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $host $rsyncPath $argList+';
Normally the backuppc user won't have read access to all the files
so you have to set up passwordless sudo to let the command run as
root. I haven't done that myself but I think it has been mentioned
on the list before.
--
Les Mikesell
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