It is. farragut is my backuppc host.
Is there anything of interest in the logs, specifically the error log?
And do you have your sudoers set up properly?
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Bob of Donelson Trophy <
b...@donelsontrophy.net> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> What to do?
>>
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