On Mar 23, 2011, at 9:25 AM, Michael Stowe wrote: >> 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. > > You probably want to just enable root, in which case, you can essentially > do the same thing as you did with Linux: > http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1528 > >> 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. > > You probably want to shorten your steps and test ssh in this manner -- > > On the BackupPC box: > su - backuppc > ssh testbox -l root > > In the above example, "testbox" is the box you want to make sure works > with BackupPC, and "root" is the username in the RsyncClientCmd. If it > doesn't work, get it working first before bothering with BackupPC backups > -- it's almost certainly the source of your "Unable to read 4 bytes" > error. >
Thanks to Mike and Tyler Wagner. Enabling root (and making sure my include files path had the proper case) worked. Now on to the next step, once I figure what that is. 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/
