[BackupPC-users] PostXXXXCmd REMOTEUSER $ubstitution

2007-06-17 Thread Mark Sopuch
Hi all. I utilise the so-called 'User Commands' for mail-outs on pretty much every operation that would be of interest to those caring about the management of their data. Due to the configured shared nature of access to initiating ops in BackupPC at my site, I need to specifically address the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Should you have to patch BackupPC/Lib.pm?

2007-06-17 Thread Craig Barratt
Tony writes: That's correct. The code winds up looking either in /etc, or in $TOPDIR/conf, neither of which is correct. On FreeBSD, it would go in /usr/local/etc/BackupPC (or /usr/local/etc/backuppc, whichever). Ok, it's fixed. The makeDist script fails to change the hardcoded value back

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup from localhost failed

2007-06-17 Thread Randy Barlow
Matthias Meyer wrote: Is it right that localhost use ssh? Well it will work if the backuppc user has the proper credentials to login to localhost as root. It seems that this might not be the case. You don't need to use ssh and probably shouldn't however. I'd recommend using rsync or tar to