Michael Stowe wrote:
> On 2017-06-15 03:25, Daniel Berteaud wrote:
> > Hi there.
> >
> > Using BackupPC since v2, I used to be able to BackupPC the host itself
> > (the one running BackupPC) using rsync by simply modifying
> > $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} (to something like '/usr/bin/sudo $rsyncPath
> > $argList', and same for $Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd}). THis worked
> > with BackupPC v3 too.
> >
> > How can the same be done with BackupPC v4 now that RsyncClientCmd
> > isn't used anymore ? Setting RsyncSshArgs to undef does't work as
> > it'll try to run with ssh (but without a full path), eg
...
>
> I looked on my own setup to answer this question, since I used a similar
> method under 3.x and have been backing up the local systems under 4.x
> since the alpha versions.
>
> Turns out I just use a pretty vanilla rsync/ssh setup, and set up ssh
> keys so the box can log into itself without issues.
>
i will have the same issue that Daniel has. I use:
$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo $rsyncPath $argList+';
$Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo $rsyncPath $argList+';
in order to backup the backuppc host without the encryption/decryption
overhead of ssh.
for another host, i use this:
$Conf{SshPath} = '/var/lib/backuppc/pc/broom/dual_commands';
$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath backup $host $rsyncPath $argList+';
$Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd} = '$sshPath restore $host $rsyncPath $argList+';
where the "dual_commands" script first tries the host on a wired
connection, and then on a wireless connection -- this is for a laptop
which might be connected either way. (this also requires wrapping
the "ping" command -- i didn't show that, above.)
is there really no way to handle special cases like this in v4?
paul
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