Tino Schwarze wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 02:43:11AM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
>> What is the best way to backup a folder -
>> in fact, my mail folder /home/tim/Maildir -
>> with backuppc running on the same computer?
>>
>> I assume that I need to allow backuppc to read this folder?
>
> The easiest approach is
> a) install an rsyncd which allows only local connects
> b) threat your local machine just like any other server and use
> ssh/rsync with public-key authentication
>
> Tino, using b).
Thanks for your comment.
I take it from your final remark that (a) and (b)
are alternative methods?
I tried (b), as far as I understood it, but without success.
I added my id_rsa.pub to backuppc's .ssh/authorized_keys
so that when I run as backuppc on this machine ("helen")
I can access my account with
ssh -l tim helen .
However, when I try to backup /home/tim/Maildir/
I fail with the usual "4 bytes" failure:
-----------------------------------
2010-01-21 14:14:19 full backup started for directory /home/tim/Maildir/
2010-01-21 14:14:20 Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes)
2010-01-21 14:14:25 Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes)
-----------------------------------
Could you say precisely what you did to get this working, please.
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
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s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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