Steve Freitas wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 01:20 -0300, Martin Sarsale wrote:
>> this is what I did, not sure if it's the official way:
>>
>> I copied everything to my disk, created a new system user and changed
>> rsyncclientcmd to:
>> $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l newUser 127.0.0.1
>> $rsyncPath $argList+';
>>
>> then forced a full backup and when it was ready I just commented the
>> line and let backuppc connect to the real host
>
> Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately I don't have the room on the server to
> hold two copies of it. I wonder if I'm out of luck without hanging an
> additional drive on there...
You should be able to get the same effect by backing it up from some
other machine on the local lan with the server - perhaps a laptop or
other temporary addition, then changing the pc directory name and the
name in the hosts entry to the real one.
--
Les Mikesell
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