November 24, 2019 8:52 PM, "Ben Koenig" <techkoe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> SSH keys are *usually* stored in $HOME/.ssh, and the error you are seeing > clearly indicates that this folder cannot be created. Since it cannot > create the folder, it cannot store your public key, and therefore cannot > authenticate via key pair. I'm fairly new to FreeNAS, but on my box > /nonexistent/ literally does not exist. > > My understanding is that this is a keyword used for users that run without > home directories. Which user are you attempting to use on the FreeNAS end? > Whatever user it being used to read/write files on your NAS box appears to > be configured to run without a $HOME folder, and will be unable to store a > public key for authentication. > > This is is just a guess but if the BackupPC app runs as a given user, you > may need to add a home folder for that user. Then you will be able to > transfer your public key to it. > -Ben > > On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 6:12 PM <mich...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > >> This is the rsync child about to exec /usr/local/bin/rsync_bpc >> Could not create directory '/nonexistent/.ssh'. >> Host key verification failed. >> rsync_bpc: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) >> [Receiver] >> Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, >> 0 sizeTotal, 0 filesNew, 0 sizeNew, 0 sizeNewComp, 2 inode >> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) >> [Receiver=3.1.2.1] >> rsync_bpc exited with fatal status 12 (3072) (rsync error: error in rsync >> protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.2.1]) >> Xfer PIDs are now >> Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share /) >> Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /) >> >> November 24, 2019 7:59 PM, mich...@robinson-west.com wrote: >> >> https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/quickstart-guide-for-backuppc-4-in-a-jail-on-freenas.740 >> >> My question is, do I need to import the ssh key for root user on my CentOS >> 7 box so I can rsync back up the entire system? >> I'm trying to trigger a backup from my FreeNAS box using BackupPC4 in a >> jail. >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> PLUG@pdxlinux.org >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug Not certain if I did the right thing, but I changed /nonexistent to /root. Maybe I should change that to /home/backuppc and set the ownership to backuppc:backuppc and move the .ssh folder over there. Why by default is the home directory set to /nonexistent in the first place? -- Michael Robinson _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
