Or, if your not overly paranoid about passwords and security you could setup rsync in daemon mode and run it as a service on your system. This would require the use of an rsync "secrets" file and you open another potential vector for attack. Additionally, the communications between client and server are not encrypted so this approach would not be suitable for environments where your network is accessible by unknown parties.
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Adam Goryachev <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ryan Knapper wrote: >> Edit the host config, select the Xfer tab and change RsyncClientCmd and >> RsyncClientRestoreCmd from "-l root" to an existing username. Perhaps >> create a backuppc user with the appropriate permissions. >> >> the only problem i have is that i can't access my ubuntu machine via >> rsync with root access (in order to backup /home).. >> >> i supposed i could activate the 'root' user, but i am not too keen >> on that.. >> >> any ideas? > > Or search for backuppc rsync sudo > > Basically, backuppc will login to your ubuntu machine as a normal user > (ie, username backuppc with locked password, ssh keys setup, and no > special privilege, other than it can use sudo for the command rsync blah > blah... > > Then just configure backuppc to call ssh which will call sudo, which > will call rsync, and your done. See the search results for the exact > commands needed, I've never done this, just seen it discussed many > times, and know it can work very well. > > Regards, > Adam > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAklhvRwACgkQGyoxogrTyiX+eACfYPWaad2nHkvYP0lmQFIf5Uj8 > 88EAoLln+90n/yUfWNrrpO1tX4t813g2 > =u0dI > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > -- Jonathan Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
