1. I'm running - or trying to run - BackupPC under Centos-5.2, and have been looking at various BackupPC HOWTOs and tutorials.
I see that the "Falko" tutorial at http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_backuppc recommends (on page 3) that one should enter one's username, "falko" in this case, as the user in /etc/BackupPC/hosts .
Other tutorials suggest one should use the user "backuppc", who was indeed created by "yum install BackupPC".
2. This tutorial also suggests at one point that when exchanging SSH keys one should login to the BackupPC server as backuppc . "Yum install BackupPC" did indeed create a user backuppc on the server, but the entry in /etc/passwd reads backuppc:x:101:104::/var/lib/BackupPC:/sbin/nologin so I cannot login as (or su to) backuppc .
Should I alter this password entry?
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 17:18 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I see that the "Falko" tutorial at http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_backuppc recommends (on page 3) that one should enter one's username, "falko" in this case, as the user in /etc/BackupPC/hosts .
Other tutorials suggest one should use the user "backuppc", who was indeed created by "yum install BackupPC".
I found the BackupPC documentation excellent, not familiar with the above howto.
The user the howto refers to is the user to connect to the remote station as, not the user to run backuppc as.
I'd suggest sticking to the GUI/Web-interface, while reading BackupPC documentation.
- This tutorial also suggests at one point that when exchanging SSH keys
one should login to the BackupPC server as backuppc . "Yum install BackupPC" did indeed create a user backuppc on the server, but the entry in /etc/passwd reads backuppc:x:101:104::/var/lib/BackupPC:/sbin/nologin so I cannot login as (or su to) backuppc .
Should I alter this password entry?
No need - just put the ssh keys in /var/lib/BackupPC/.ssh/
Regards,
Seán
Seán O Sullivan wrote:
I found the BackupPC documentation excellent, not familiar with the above howto.
Just shows how opinions can differ. I found the documentation very bad, at least for one with my needs - a home network on a few computers looking for a simple backup system.
I should say that BackupPC _is_ a simple backup system once it is installed and configured; it is the configuring that I found absurdly difficult, given that I only had to make a couple of config choices, once I had worked out what they were.
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Just shows how opinions can differ. I found the documentation very bad, at least for one with my needs - a home network on a few computers looking for a simple backup system.
I should say that BackupPC _is_ a simple backup system once it is installed and configured; it is the configuring that I found absurdly difficult, given that I only had to make a couple of config choices, once I had worked out what they were.
I just put a guide up on the CentOS wiki a week or so ago.
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC
The goal was to kind of put together all these bits and pieces into one simple to follow tutorial. It concentrates on using rsync to other Linux/CentOS clients, but perhaps it might help you out.
Regards, Max
Max Hetrick wrote:
I just put a guide up on the CentOS wiki a week or so ago.
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC
The goal was to kind of put together all these bits and pieces into one simple to follow tutorial. It concentrates on using rsync to other Linux/CentOS clients, but perhaps it might help you out.
Thanks, I'll have a look at that - though as I said I now have BackupPC working OK, hopefully backing up my system each week.
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