Is rsync installed on the second Ubuntu laptop? Are there any differences in the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the two laptops?
-Rob Robert Saunders wrote: > I have successfully set up backuppc on a Ubuntu 7.04 box, and equally > successfully set up one Ubuntu 7.04 laptop as a client, using rsync. I > generated ssh keys on both the client (laptop) and host (backuppc), > exchanged public keys and appended to the authorized_keys2 and > known_hosts files. This first laptop backs up fine. > > I then tried to set up a second Ubuntu 7.04 laptop. I copied over the > host (backuppc)'s public key file (the same one generated above), and > appended it to the second client laptop's authorized_keys2 file. > > When logged in as backuppc on the host (backuppc) PC, executing > ssh -l root 192.168.0.9 whoami > gives the output > root > without being prompted for root's password. So at this point all looks > OK. When I try to initiate a backup, it fails, with the following error > message (I included -v to get errors listed): > > > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -v -l root robert-laptop /usr/bin/rsync > --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links > --times --block-size=2048 --recursive -D --ignore-times . /home/ > Xfer PIDs are now 5370 > Got remote protocol 1852141647 > Fatal error (bad version): OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-8ubuntu1, OpenSSL 0.9.8c 05 > Sep 2006 > > Read EOF: > Tried again: got 0 bytes > fileListReceive() failed > Done: 0 files, 0 bytes > Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed) > Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed) > > I realise I'm probably a bit inexperienced with ssh - I googled and searched > this mailing list, > but found nothing that has sorted this issue out. I'd be very grateful for > any advice to sort this out. > > Robert > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
