BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cloning Your BackupPC

2010-04-07 09:41:59
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Cloning Your BackupPC
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:40:13 -0500
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Buxenstein, Jason wrote:
>> They are the same hardware, but unfortunately they both have different 
>> applications running; BackupPC will be just one of the side processes. I 
>> did a scp of the directories containing the host setups, and BackupPC is 
>> able to ping all the hosts that need to be backed up, but when I attempt 
>> a backup I get the “unable to read 4 bytes” error, meaning there is a 
>> connection error. All my ssh keys are valid – is there an httpd 
>> application BackupPC needs that I might be missing? Or any other 
>> applications for that matter that might cause connection errors?
>>
> 
> That sounds like an incorrect ssh key setup to me. Are you sure it is correct 
> for the backuppc user?  You can either copy the original ssh identity or 
> repeat 
> the process to make the targets accept a new one.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that the target ssh host fingerprints need to be in 
your known_hosts file.  If you didn't copy the old one, you need to connect to 
each target manually once so you can answer the prompt you get from ssh about a 
new/unknown host.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com




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