On 7/28/2010 4:47 PM, Jack M. Nilles wrote:
> I'm moving BackupPC to a new machine, running SUSE 11.2. After
> installation I get nothing but the dreaded pink background and:
> 'backup failed (Unable to read 4 bytes)'
> messages for each host being backed up. Yet, if I start a backup via:
>
> sudo -u backuppc /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f <host>
>
> I do indeed get the backup, along with verbose output, provided I keep
> tabs on each backup section, since a password is required at each section.
>
> What little detail am I missing here? I never had this problem with the
> old machine running SUSE 11.1.

If it is asking for a password, that means your ssh keys on the targets 
need to be updated to match the new host - or you need to copy the old 
private identity for backuppc over to the new server.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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