On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> Richard Shaw wrote:
>>
>> I know you could use ssh to run the tar command on the remote machine
>> but I don't know how you would get the output of tar (the data) back
>> to the backup server.
>
> Ssh works as a pipe - anything written to stdout on the remote side can
> be read through ssh just like a local pipe.  The default tar and rsync
> commands configured in backuppc use this feature correctly.  They should
> be listed in the documentation at
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#configuration_file in
> case you've forgotten what you changed.

Ok, that makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up for me!

>> Since Ubuntu does not have root accounts you may have to use this[1] method.
>>
>> Richard
>>
>> [1] 
>> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/ssh.html#how_can_client_access_as_root_be_avoided
>
> Ubuntu has a root account (as anything resembling unix must).  It just
> doesn't have a password assigned by default - and you don't need one for
> key-pair based ssh access.

That being said, does Ubuntu define a shell for root? And if not, is
that required for key based ssh access?

Richard

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