Dear Stefan, you are so kind! This helps a lot. Yes, I'm plodding my way
through. You wrote:
[Backup-Data-Folder]
## Next, set the path you want backed up. Be sure to use a trailing
slash
path = /
Please don't do that:
o a Linux system has virtual file systems mounted (/proc, /temp,
/sys/ ...) that will either not be readable, change during
access or may lead to endless loops.
o this includes your /var/lib/backuppc directory. That's where
your backup goes, so you backup your backup. It won't take long
until the backup of backups of backups (...) will fill up your drive.
I'd go for /etc at this point and add additional paths later, when
this works.
Oh boy.... I get it!!! I can't believe how stupid I was about that.
Well, doesn't this mean I have to establish a whole bunch of modules
with a different path for each module, in order to back up everything
EXCEPT the backup location? Maybe I should try a different method than
rsyncd????
Most probably, BackupPC will try to connect as user backuppc, not root.
At least, that's the default.
I have root as the user for backuppc for all my other hosts and it
works. And it's also currently set up as root for backing up the server.
I did try "backuppc" as the user before and it failed, maybe for
different reasons. Anyway, I'm not sure how confused the app backuppc
would be in the case of trying to back up itself. The server app
backuppc is running as the user "backuppc", but I do know that it can
call through port 873 as the user "root" when it is backing up all the
other clients. Yeah, I'm confused :-)
From your description of how the secrets file works, it would seem to
me that I've got that covered right now with my secrets file having one
line describing a user called "root" with its password and in the
config, auth users is root. Not the most elegant but I don't see a
conflict there.
Best wishes,
Bob
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