I'm a newbie with limited Linux experience, but I've had BPC running for about a week on a test machine running Centos 5.5. So far I've successfully gotten backups for a Windows machine over SMB and another linux (CentOS) with rsync; however, I'm having trouble getting things to work for a Mac client running 10.6.6 and am hoping for some help.
I am using rsync xfer and have tried setting things up as I did for the linux machine: created a public key in /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh. For the linux machine, I copied that to root on the client with ssh-copy-id and everything worked fine. One the Mac, root is not enabled, so I copied the key to the user's home directory. That worked in that I can ssh from the BPC server to the Mac user without a password. But when I try to run a backup on it, it fails with a "Unable to read 4 bytes" error. I've tried a lot changes to user and share in the host config file, but nothing works (/ vs /user/home, backuppc vs mac user as user) and nothing has worked. From some web searching I may have to get a key from the Mac onto the BPC server, but there is also this http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=MacOS_X_secure_setup in the wiki about setting up a backuppc user on the Mac. Can someone give me guidance on the best way to get the Mac set up? Thanks Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ 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/
