Hi Les & Carl, I was pre-mature in thinking that the problem was solved. I am still getting the same result: No files transferred.
I will rework the archiver system to switch from tar to rsync transfer. I believe that this will work as the rsync method is working on all other hosts. But, I do have another question. Do I need to remove the old tar history for localhost? I don't trust any of the data anyway and it will free the storage. Now, that provokes a second question. What is the best way to do this? I could totally remove localhost from the backup system and then tell the system to purge the old files for this machine. Then, recreate it using rsync transport mechanism. I am just not sure exactly how to perform this evolution. I believe I'm seeing light at the end of the tunnel and just pray that it is not an incoming freight train. -- ken On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 01:10 -0500, Kenneth L. Owen wrote: > Thank you, Les! > > That was my total problem. My backups are scheduled to begin at 01:00 > and I just had time to get there, logon as backuppc and issue the > ssh-copy-id archiver. Immediately the tar backup began! > > What I can't figure out now is why it was working some of the time > without the public key on file in authorized_keys. > > I'll update my notes for the next time I have to setup a system! > > Again, thanks for your help and putting up with a barely literate Linux > user. -- ken > > > > On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 23:42 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Kenneth L. Owen > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I am not wanting to generate a new private key on the archiver for > > > backuppc user for just the reason you gave -- the clients are in sync > > > with this key. > > > > > > And you don't need a new key, you just need the public key that > > matches your existing private key added to the appropriate > > authorized_keys file. > > > > > backuppc ssh connects to the client as backuppc where he has an account. > > > The clients sudoers file gives backuppc root privilege for the commands > > > needed to perform backup and no others. If I need to do a restore, I > > > must revise the sodoers file to to switch to the commands for restore so > > > backuppc can write the files. Then when the restore is complete it is > > > changed back so that only the backup function is allowed. > > > > > > On the archiver, backuppc has a logon ID. The sudoers file gives > > > backuppc root authority on archiver system, but only for the commands > > > needed to perform a tar backup of /home. > > > > > > So, to switch to rsync, I revise sudoers to give backuppc root privilege > > > for the commands to perform rsync backup of /home. Then BackupPC > > > application will ssh connect to localhost as user backuppc on localhost. > > > > > > Am I missing something here? > > > > That is more complicated than just ssh'ing as root (where sshd has > > approximately equivalent facilities to sudo to control what can be > > executed) but if that is working correctly elsewhere it should work > > the same with localhost as the target. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ 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/
