Timothy Murphy wrote:

> The rest is setting up ssh to work as root on the clients,
> and this requires 3 steps:
> 1. ssh-keygen as root on the client

You don't need to run ssh-keygen on the clients, only on the BackupPC  
server. You copy the public key that is generated on the BackupPC  
server to the clients.

>> As I said, "behind the scenes" means "what *you* configured". If  
>> you use
>> the default values, you will need to understand what they mean. You  
>> should
>> at least have *looked at* the values, in which case you should have
>> noticed the 'ssh -q -x -l root $host ...'
>
> Sorry, /etc/BackupPC/config.pl is 2165 lines long.
> I've no intention of reading that.
> Life is too short.

If you're serious about doing backups, I recommend you really read  
through the configuration. I read all of it and afterwards I  
understood a lot more about how BackupPC works, what it's doing  
exactly and what kind of things can be changed and tweaked. Reading  
2165 lines to make sure you have a good feeling about backing up all  
data that is important to you sounds like a bargain to me. Mostly it's  
a summary of the online docs by the way. Reading those I recommend  
even more actually.

Nils Breunese.

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