On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 6:22 PM, inodeman
<backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:
> This question was asked on this forum in 2012. The answer was to switch from 
> sudo to ssh. I have already tried that. No help. This problem only appears 
> when using rsync. Windows machines over samba do get backed up.  This is a 
> new Debian Testing PC running AMD64. The client pc can be turned off, but the 
> server ignores that fact, and begins reading the client config file for 
> directories to back up. As long as there is a match with a server directory,  
> the server backs itself up into the client's repository. The back up aborts 
> when there is a client directory that doesn't exist on the server. I call 
> this Cowbird behavior. To save you a Google, a Cowbird is a bird that lays 
> its eggs in somebody else's nest. Have already posted to Debian forum with no 
> success.
>

I can't follow any of that.  What does the log show as the command the
server ran when it backs itself up instead of the intended target?
And do you have a ClientAliasName set for this host?


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  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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