Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up macs

Here's some notes from our internal Wiki for enabling BackupPC. With this method, there's no reason that you couldn't backup the entire system.

Enable ssh access

System Preferences/Sharing

Check - Remote Login

Create and populate /var/root/.ssh/authorized_keys

Applications/Utilities/Terminal

sudo su -

mkdir .ssh

chmod 700 .ssh

echo '[backuppc user public key]' >> .ssh/authorized_keys

chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys

exit

Note the "backup public key looks something like:

ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc... [a couple lines of hash] ....ISXXYosqZQ== backuppc@server

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On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Michael Stowe <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org> wrote:

> Thanks Ray and Kris for the advice. I checked and found I’ve got 3GB of
> memory in my BackupPC Server, so it seems that it should be sufficient.
>
> What user context does BackupPC connect to the machine under in order to
> get it to back up properly? Do you enable the root user on the Mac? Or do
> you create an administrative user of some sort on the macintosh and run
> rsync as that user?
>
> Justin Best
> 360.513.1489

I enable the root user and back them up just like any [other] *nix system.
I only bother excluding temporary files, and I've never had a problem.

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