Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Les Mikesell <[email protected]> wrote: >> Jose Torres wrote: >>> I followed this KBA for ubuntu/backuppc installation and configuration: >>> >>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupPC >>> >>> The default config.pl tar command does not include the network computer >>> either. The KBA suggested change takes care of the sudo mode of Ubuntu root >>> required commands, does not change much. >>> >>> So should I conclude that I must use rsync mode instead of tar mode to do >>> network backups? >> No, tar would work remotely, although rsync has advantages. But sudo is >> not a network command and is not going to run anything remotely. >> Whatever instructions you are following must be limited to the local >> machine and should only appear in that machine's configuration (whether >> you are editing the .pl file directly or using the web interface). > > I know you could use ssh to run the tar command on the remote machine > but I don't know how you would get the output of tar (the data) back > to the backup server.
Ssh works as a pipe - anything written to stdout on the remote side can be read through ssh just like a local pipe. The default tar and rsync commands configured in backuppc use this feature correctly. They should be listed in the documentation at http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#configuration_file in case you've forgotten what you changed. > Since Ubuntu does not have root accounts you may have to use this[1] method. > > Richard > > [1] > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/ssh.html#how_can_client_access_as_root_be_avoided Ubuntu has a root account (as anything resembling unix must). It just doesn't have a password assigned by default - and you don't need one for key-pair based ssh access. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
