Skip - take a look at this how-to for centos.  Aside from setting up 
repos the sudo and ssh key tutorials should apply:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC

Skip Guenter wrote:
> I have been looking at this and back to a how-to I was trying to follow.
> For the case of backing up the localhost (c17-desktop) & trying to
> exclude the /var/lib/backuppc directory where c17-desktop is the
> BackupPC server...
>
> I can not follow where to copy ssh keys to/from.  Does anybody have time
> to baby step me thru this?  
>
> When I do: "sudo su backuppc"
> followed by: "ssh -x -l backuppc c17-desktop date"
> i get: "ssh: connect to host c17-desktop port 22: Connection refused"
> Which I believe ya'll are telling me is because I don't have ssh-keys
> set up correctly.
>
> I do have user backuppc set up to be able to run rsync w/o a password
> via: "sudo visudo" 
> which shows: 
> # User privilege specification
> root     ALL=(ALL) ALL
> backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD: /user/bin/rsync
>
> Thanx in advance, Skip

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