Re: [BackupPC-users] A Perl error?

2023-07-23 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hi there, On Sun, 23 Jul 2023, Jan Stransky wrote: I started to notice following error. ... Can't use string ("1") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at configure.pl line 742. ... Looks like you broke it. Please let us see what you have around line 742 of configure.pl. In the vanilla

Re: [BackupPC-users] A Perl error?

2023-07-23 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hi there, On Sun, 23 Jul 2023, Peter Major wrote: I don't usually wade in to discussions like these, but as I understand perl fairly well, I feel the need to point out that you are on the wrong track G.W.Haywood.The error message does not refer to line 742 of config.pl, but to that of configure

Re: [BackupPC-users] A Perl error?

2023-07-23 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hi there, On Sun, 23 Jul 2023, Jan Stransky wrote: I started to notice following error. Does any one have any ideas? It seems to be more related to configure.pl genrerator, rather than the actual configuration. Cheers, Jan Can't use string ("1") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at confi

Re: [BackupPC-users] A Perl error?

2023-07-23 Thread Peter Major
Hi, I don't usually wade in to discussions like these, but as I understand perl fairly well, I feel the need to point out that you are on the wrong track G.W.Haywood.The error message does not refer to line 742 of config.pl, but to that of configure.pl, presumably the script which reads config.pl.U

Re: [BackupPC-users] ssh+rsync and known_hosts

2023-07-23 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Saturday, July 22, 2023 1:46 PM -0400 Paul Fox wrote: You should be trying to manually ssh from the backuppc account You'd think, but that's the last thing I tried, not the first. I was trying to diagnose the problem by running BackupPC_dump (as user backuppc) and trying to debug from

Re: [BackupPC-users] ssh+rsync and known_hosts

2023-07-23 Thread backuppc
Paul Fox wrote at about 12:46:18 -0400 on Saturday, July 22, 2023: > Kenneth Porter wrote: > > I'm setting up some Raspberry Pis and I set up BackupPC to back them up > > using ssh+rsync. I installed the key in ~backuppc/.ssh/authorized_keys > but > > the initial backup was still failing

Re: [BackupPC-users] ssh+rsync and known_hosts

2023-07-23 Thread Kenneth Porter
On 7/23/2023 11:42 AM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: While allowing root permissions to rsync is a pretty big security hole itself, it is a little less drastic than simply logging in as root. On my more sensitive machines, I run rsyncd in read-only mode with exclusions. I do wish rsyncd offered

[BackupPC-users] Cant Backup Mount Point

2023-07-23 Thread kontakt
Hi, i use BPC 4.4.0 with rsync for a linux machine. I mounted via fstab a second sdc1 drive at /var/files/, but this folder isnt backuped. I see in the backup foldertree /var/files but its empty. I have no exclusion for /var/files, or /var/. I assume there is a build in setting for non root d