EUREKA!! Hallelujah!! And all that jazz ...... I removed using the ssh.conf, changed the ClientNameAlias to the IP address and put the RsyncSshArgs back to "$sshPath -o KexAlgorithms=diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 -o HostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-dss -l root".
And that combo seems to work fine ..... will try another host setup with same configuration to make sure ..... Just some combo of those two areas .... and thank god it was a "user" config error !!!! -----Original Message----- From: Joyce, Stephen [mailto:step...@email.unc.edu] Sent: June 10, 2019 3:58 PM To: David Wynn <dewyn...@yahoo.ca> Subject: RE: [BackupPC-users] BACKUPPC V4 - rsync-bpc error connecting to client Hi, David. Try commenting out "HostName 192.168.1.6" from your ssh.conf, AND adding "192.168.1.6" (without "" marks, when done via the gui) to the ClientNameAlias for the host nbox, and trying the backup again. Cheers, Stephen On Mon, 10 Jun 2019, David Wynn wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joyce, Stephen [mailto:step...@email.unc.edu] > Sent: June 10, 2019 12:49 PM > To: David Wynn <dewyn...@yahoo.ca> > Subject: RE: [BackupPC-users] BACKUPPC V4 - rsync-bpc error connecting > to client > > On Mon, 10 Jun 2019, David Wynn wrote: > > > If you want the relevant code, take a look at > $topdir/lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Rsync.pm. Interesting bits start around line > 430 and continue on to about 465. > >>>>>> THANKS ... have looked at the code but will spend a little more >>>>>> time > trying to understand it and see if there is anything that might help. > Not a PERL coder so it sometimes takes a while to see what is happening. > COBOL/PL1 and RPG were what I grew up with ... <<<<<<<<< > > > But it really smells like a config issue on your server. >>>>>> My thinking too but danged if I can see the mistake/error. And >>>>>> yet I > have it working fine on my old system (UBUNTU 16 and BackupPC 3.3) <<<<<< > > What happens if, wherever you have the "root@192..." line (probably > RsyncSshArgs, but possibly one of RsyncBackupPCPath, RsyncClientPath, > RsyncArgs, RsyncArgsExtra, RsyncFullArgsExtra) you remove the IP > address leaving just "root" for the username? > >>>>>> As I mentioned I moved all options to the SSH.CONF file to remove >>>>>> them > from the equation ... here is what the file looks like ..... > Host nbox > KexAlgorithms=+diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 > HostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-dss > User root > HostName 192.168.1.6 > LogLevel DEBUG2 > > So there is no @ left in the string. I just commented out the User in > ssh.conf, reloaded and then changed RsyncSshArgs to /usr/bin/ssh nbox -l > root and I get the same error. And withouth HostName in the conf file it > errors out right away in SSH because it can't resolve nbox port 22 > ..... and if I change the args to include root@IP then it still errors > on the RSYNC line ..... > > It is very frustrating ...... old works, new doesn't ... RSYNCD works > RSYNC doesn't .... aaarrrrgggghhhh! > > Thanks again Stephen .... Dave > > _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/