Also, I found this http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/localhost.html
It does have some info, hoping I can find some of the "other" items that
are listed:
> A similar setup with sudo can be used for rsync. See the SSH FAQ for more
> information.
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Travis Schwenke
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Trying to get my ducks in a row before I tackle changing my backups over
> to rsync this weekend and have a couple questions before I begin.
>
> *Setup:* Ubuntu 12.10 running backuppc, 4 windows boxes
> *Current backup: *Ubuntu was setup for TAR backup on itself *[localhost]*and
> I added smb backups for the windows boxes.
> *Goal: *move everything over to rsync
>
> So in doing my research, I am confused more by rsync for the *[localhost]
> *since most instructions are for backing up remote machines. I assume I
> don't need to have any ssh keys for rsyncing items from *[localhost]*?
>
> I found some Ubuntu instructions and they show the settings as:
>
> $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $hostIP $rsyncPath
> $argList+';$Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $hostIP
> $rsyncPath $argList+';
>
>
> I guess I am also wondering if I should be using "root" in that command.
> It seems like even if I am backing up *[localhost] *I should be using
> sudo for the command??
>
> I should add, that for the current tar command *[localhost] *backup, I
> did add backuppc user to have no password for the tar command. Not sure if
> I should be doing that for rsync then as well or if it will be fine. (Ubuntu
> BackupPC Help <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupPC>)
>
> Add backuppc to the sudoers list
>
> - Run “sudo visudo”
> - At the bottom of the file add
>
> # Allow backuppc to run tar without a passwordbackuppc ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/tar
>
>
> I am going to try to setup *[localhost] *first using rsync, then move to
> the windows boxes. Seems like there are some better instructions out there
> that I have found for them, but I am sure I will run into something! I
> plan on using cygwin on the windows machines. Again, thanks for answering
> questions, it is appreciated. I want to make sure I do this right and
> don't blindly follow some bad instructions and get to some point I can't
> recover from.
>
> *Travis Schwenke*
> Ubuntu newbie (with some computer skills) and real backuppc newbie :)
>
>
>
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