>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
>> On Tuesday 29 June 2010 04:29:14 Michael Stowe wrote:
>>
>> > Leave the settings for that alone ... and use a symbolic link.
>> >
>>
>> Or do both. I've changed both topdir and put in a symlink. It works.
>>
>
>
> I created a symlink - hopefully correctly.  The original install placed
> backups in /var/lib/backuppc and I wanted to redirect them to
> /media/data/backuppc.  I created the symlink with ln -s /var/lib/backuppc
> /media/data/backuppc which created a folder named backuppc in the
> /media/data/ folder.  Hopefully I got this the right way around.
>
> However, when I try to backup a host from the network it fails and the log
> shows:
>
> Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/192.168.72.11/LOG.062010, modified
> 2010-06-29 21:01:27
>
> 2010-06-29 21:01:20 full backup started for directory /
> 2010-06-29 21:01:22 Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes)
> 2010-06-29 21:01:27 Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes)
>
> I seem to have a problem?

Those symptoms almost universally mean that ssh isn't set up right.

To test it, su - over to the backuppc user and see if you can log in to
the remote system as root without being prompted for a password.

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