Johan Ehnberg wrote at about 16:54:48 +0200 on Friday, December 19, 2008: > > > Do you need anything more than the following one-liner to initiate a backup > > ssh backu...@backuppcserver /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg > > ba\ > > ckup $hostname > > > > or similar variants using other server messages or the raw program, > > BackupPC_dump > > That server message does not exist in 3.0.0 nor in 3.1.0, and that's > part of the challenge. Using dump works but is bad for scheduling and > requires automatic backups to be disabled and scheduling handled by the > client.
It is in 3.1.0 at least - I use it all the time. > > However, I am hoping it will be included to make things easier. If it is > implemented somewhere I'd like to know :) > > Also, the other thing the solution has to cover is security. Giving > clients passwordless access to the backuppc user is not an alternative > for most people, as it would in most cases give full access to all other > clients. There are a lot of potential solutions here. An easy one might be to just give clients access to a dummy account and then use sudo on the backuppc server to allow them to run a fixed (limited) set of commands as user backuppc -- i.e. allow them to pass (some or all) server messages to BackupPC > > -- > Johan Ehnberg > > Email: jo...@ehnberg.net > GSM: +358503209688 > WWW: http://www.ehnberg.net/johan/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
