[BackupPC-users] How does BackupPC rsync over ssh work?

2011-09-26 Thread maarten
Hi, I'm sorry if this has been explained before on this list, but I could not find the answer in the archives. I have been a long time user of BackupPC, but currently I'm building a small ZFS-based NAS. I figured that BackupPC will not be ideal ZFS, since it uses hard links as opposed to ZFS

Re: [BackupPC-users] How does BackupPC rsync over ssh work?

2011-09-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:29 AM, maar...@tepaske.net wrote: So I am currently writing some scripts for my backup needs. Which made me wonder, BackupPC essentially starts a backup like this: /usr/bin/ssh -4 -q -l backuppc host sudo /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms

Re: [BackupPC-users] How does BackupPC rsync over ssh work?

2011-09-26 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
maar...@tepaske.net wrote at about 10:29:16 +0200 on Monday, September 26, 2011 So I am currently writing some scripts for my backup needs. Which made me wonder, BackupPC essentially starts a backup like this: /usr/bin/ssh -4 -q -l backuppc host sudo /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender

Re: [BackupPC-users] How does BackupPC rsync over ssh work?

2011-09-26 Thread Maarten te Paske
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 09:00:03AM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: maar...@tepaske.net wrote at about 10:29:16 +0200 on Monday, September 26, 2011 So I am currently writing some scripts for my backup needs. Which made me wonder, BackupPC essentially starts a backup like this:

Re: [BackupPC-users] How does BackupPC rsync over ssh work?

2011-09-26 Thread Tim Fletcher
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 15:37 +0200, Maarten te Paske wrote: OK, I will read a bit more into the rsync documentation. I thought this way I wouldn't be able to limit the privileges through sudo, but maybe I'm wrong. I use the following line in /etc/sudoers to allow the user backups to call rsync

Re: [BackupPC-users] How does BackupPC rsync over ssh work?

2011-09-26 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Tim Fletcher wrote at about 19:53:25 +0100 on Monday, September 26, 2011: On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 15:37 +0200, Maarten te Paske wrote: OK, I will read a bit more into the rsync documentation. I thought this way I wouldn't be able to limit the privileges through sudo, but maybe I'm