Generally, I just backup OSX in the same manner as Linux -- rsync over
SSH. You can do this as your desired user to jump into a user home
directory, but you'll have to make sure that user can login via SSH (and
use rsync). But if rsyncd works, more power to you!
-Kris
Kris Lou
[email protected]
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 2:07 PM, David Williams <
[email protected]> wrote:
> I believe I may have found the answer to this. Isn’t that always the
> case!!
>
> Would I be correct in that the uid and gid parameters in the rsyncd.conf
> file would be the way to ensure which user and group the rsyncd process
> runs at? So, in the case below, I would ensure that the uid = dwilliams??
>
> Regards,
> _____________________________________________
> *Dave Williams*
> Senior Oracle MDM & Financials Consultant
> Phone: +1 954 661 8862 <(954)%20661-8862>
>
> On Feb 20, 2017, at 2:28 PM, David Williams <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I’ve been using BackupPC for quite a number of years now and I’ve mainly
> used it to backup my Linux server and my windows laptop. I recently bought
> a Mac and have been setting it up and I’ve had partial success, but it is
> backing files up :)
>
> With windows I was was using SMB protocol to backup the laptop and this
> was fairly straight forward in that smbclient would log into to Windows
> laptop as a certain user and as such had access to all that users files.
> On my Linux server I didn’t need any type of access since that is where
> backupPC sits, so again very easy.
>
> For the Mac I am using rsyncd which took a little while to work out how to
> set up but that seems to be working now. There is one area that I am not
> clear on though and I’m hoping that someone on here could help me out.
> With rsyncd there is a config file (not that dissimilar to Samba) and there
> is a secrets file for the username and password. I was assuming that the
> user I set up within this secrets file, if it was the same as my Mac user
> would have full access to my files, but that doesn’t appear to be the case,
> so I think I am missing something. I am trying to back up files in my
> /Users/dwilliams directory. So, my Mac login is dwilliams. Of course, as
> dwilliams I have full access to all files under /Users/dwilliams. However,
> when backuppc connects to my Mac laptop as dwilliams (the one from the
> secrets file I assume) it doesn’t have access to all the files under
> /Users/dwilliams. I really don’t want to have to play around with all the
> directory and file permissions unless it’s really necessary but I’m hopeful
> that I’m just missing something here.
>
> Is there a way to rsync to my Mac as the actual dwilliams Mac user so that
> I have complete access to /Users/dwilliams?
>
> Failing that, what is the best way of moving forward?
>
> Any help on this would be much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> _____________________________________________
> *Dave Williams*
> Senior Oracle MDM & Financials Consultant
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