Try SSHing to phoenix under the user BackupPC runs at from your BackupPC instance first, accepting the key fingerprint etc.
*From:* Tom Moore <moor...@gmail.com> *Sent:* Thursday, December 21, 2023 4:15 PM *To:* backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* [BackupPC-users] Backing up the BackupPC server using rsync I have files on the server that is running BackupPC that I would like to back up. I see from the sourceforge faq that this is possible, and there is a good example for using tar: https://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/localhost.html The files that I want to backup are under the /raid folder, except that I want to exclude the files in /raid/share/tmp: $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = '/raid'; $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = '/raid/share/tmp'; I was able to get the BackupPC tar transfer method working on the localhost. So far so good. I would like to set this up for the rsync transfer method since there are a lot of files to back up and rsync is supposed to be more efficient in a number of ways. I made the following changes to the host config file: $Conf{XferMethod} = "rsync"; $Conf{RsyncClientPath} = "sudo /usr/bin/rsync"; $Conf{RsyncSshArgs} = ['-e', '']; I have also added a line to the sudoers file backuppc ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/rsync When I try to run a backup it fails and I end up with the following error message in the log file: Running: /usr/bin/rsync_bpc --bpc-top-dir /var/lib/BackupPC/ --bpc-host-name phoenix --bpc-share-name /raid --bpc-bkup-num 1 --bpc-bkup-comp 3 --bpc-bkup-prevnum -1 --bpc-bkup-prevcomp -1 --bpc-bkup-inode0 9040190 --bpc-log-level 1 --bpc-attrib-new -e --rsync-path=sudo\ /usr/bin/rsync --super --recursive --protect-args --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --times --links --hard-links --delete --delete-excluded --one-file-system --partial --log-format=log:\ %o\ %i\ %B\ %8U,%8G\ %9l\ %f%L --stats --iconv=utf8,UTF-8 --timeout=72000 --include=/raid --exclude=/\* --exclude=/raid/share/tmp phoenix:/raid/ / incr backup started for directory /raid Xfer PIDs are now 24843 This is the rsync child about to exec /usr/bin/rsync_bpc rsync_bpc: Failed to exec phoenix: No such file or directory (2) Any ideas about what is going wrong here? The localhost is named phoenix, and 'ping phoenix' works, as does 'nslookup phoenix'.
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