Thanks for the response, Brad.
I need to clarify that I can backup other hosts just NOT the localhost
and I am confused as to why I cannot.
I see, by your "backup command" that your using rsync. Is this the
command to backup your localhost?
I just tried ssh-ing into the locahost (first time I can remember that
experience) and it worked.
Re-ran my test command "sudo -u backuppc
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f localhost" and got the same
"Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /)" and "Can't cd to /root:
Permission denied".
Scratching my head! What is it?
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On 2016-07-19 07:22, Brad Alexander wrote:
> I am running backuppc-3.3.1-2 on a Debian/sid box, I am ssh-ing into the box
> and have a limited set of sudo commands that backuppc can execute. This is as
> opposed to ssh-ing in as root.
>
> I have the following in my /etc/sudoers.d/backuppc account:
>
> Cmnd_Alias BACKUP=/bin/tar, /usr/bin/rsync, /usr/bin/mysqldump,
> /usr/local/sbin/dbdump
> backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD:BACKUP
>
> Then I am able to run backups.
>
> First step, can you ssh into the local host? Second step, can you simulate
> the backup command? In my case it is
>
> /usr/bin/ssh -q -x farragut sudo /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender
> --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times
> --block-size=2048 --recursive --checksum-seed=32761 --ignore-times . /
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Robert Wooden <rbrte...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Is this backing up of the localhost functional for anyone? Surely?
>>
>> -------------------------
>>
>> FROM: "Robert Wooden" <rbrte...@comcast.net>
>> TO: "General list for user discussion, questions and support"
>> <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> SENT: Sunday, July 17, 2016 12:57:40 PM
>> SUBJECT: [BackupPC-users] localhost Can't cd to /root: Permission denied
>>
>> I am in the process of rebuilding a Backuppc machine (hard drive died) and
>> never (even before hdd died) got backing up localhost (via tar) to backup.
>> As a result of the rebuild I have gotten into backing up the localhost
>> again.
>>
>> I have made the adjustments to "TarClientCmd" and "TarClientRestoreCmd" as
>> instructed at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupPC (near the end) as
>> well as adjusted "visudo". (This use to work.)
>>
>> When I run: "sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f
>> localhost" to troubleshoot the issue and the final lines returned are
>> "Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /)" and "Can't cd to /root:
>> Permission denied".
>>
>> Much search engine searching the 'issue' returns next to nothing.
>>
>> This use to work at some point (Ubuntu v14.04LTS and Backuppc 3.3.0, I
>> think) but, something changed and now building on v16.04LTS with Backuppc
>> v3.3.1 it does not.
>>
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