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Terri Kelley wrote:

## Allow root to run any commands anywhere

root    ALL=(ALL)       ALL

backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/local/bin/backuppc-rsync

backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD:/root/backups/

I don't know what /root/backups/ is doing here.. sudoers is which
commands a user should be able to execute as root... nothing else! You
do not need that line.

The /root/backups/ (tried with and without the last /) is where the  

server makes it backups in other directories and is owned by root.  

From the console on the backuppc server I issue the following command:

rsync -avz -e "ssh -p 22" myserver.domain.net:/root/backups /var/tmp/

pwrnctmpback/rsyncmanual

Try something like this:
rsync -avz -e "/usr/bin/sudo /usr/local/bin/backuppc-rsync"
backuppc AT myserver.domain DOT net:/root/backups /var/tmp/pwrnctmpback/rsyncmanual

This says to login to the remote machine as user backuppc, then run the
command /usr/bin/sudo (change that depending on where your sudo command
is), which will give you root access and call
/usr/local/bin/backuppc-rsync for you. Assuming
/usr/local/bin/backuppc-rsync is a copy of a normal rsync binary, this
will do what you need, although you don't actually need to use a
non-standard path/binary. You could just as easily list /usr/bin/rsync
in the sudoers file, and call the normal /usr/bin/rsync instead.

And I get the following:

receiving file list ... rsync: link_stat "/root/backups" failed:  

Permission denied (13)

done

So obviously doing it that way, backuppc user, does not work.

You didn't call sudo, therefore you never got root permissions...

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Adam

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