Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > 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 $hostname > > > > > > or similar variants using other server messages or the raw program, > BackupPC_dump > > > > That server message does not exist in 3.0.0 nor in 3.1.0, and that's > > part of the challenge. Using dump works but is bad for scheduling and > > requires automatic backups to be disabled and scheduling handled by the > > client. > > It is in 3.1.0 at least - I use it all the time.
That's weird, I'm using a backported 3.1.0 package in debian and getting backu...@server:~$ /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup client.domain.tld Got reply: error: bad command backup client.domain.tld > > > > 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 That's what I'm doing now, with an easy system to manage per-client keys so that any compromised key can be revoked (and it never was much danger either). Thanks for your answer! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
