Re: [rdiff-backup-users] permission denied error when making backups

2012-06-22 Thread Duk
Hi Welloki, Thank you very much for your help! I finally managed to do it :) effectively I was missing the "sudo rdiff-backup " statement in the ssh/authorized_keys now everything goes fantastic. As well I found a tutorial it helped me to clarify me a bit more, I leave the link here in case

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] permission denied error when making backups

2012-06-20 Thread Duk
Hi Weloki! I've the same setup as yours and having the same problem, did you finally found a solution? I'm only able to do a full backup logging as root, and I don't want to do that any help there? weloki wrote: > > On my server that I want backed up, I do not want to SSH into it as roo

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] permission denied error when making backups

2012-06-20 Thread weloki
Hi Duk, I set up a regular user's account for rdiff-backup on my backup server as well as a directory where I save the backed up files to. That directory has permissions for only rdiff-backup user and group (chmod -R rdiff-backup:rdiff-backup /dirname). On the servers that I want to be backed up I