Thanks Tyler,
[quote="Tyler J. Wagner"]On Sunday 15 Aug 2010 06:58:11 waverider wrote:

> 
> As I said above ssh and rsync work and provide passless connection so the
> problem must be in Backuppc config somewhere
> 


> 
> What is the format of the external drive? If the drive hosts the backuppc 
> user's home directory, make sure that .ssh and its contents have the right 
> permissions.


The external drive is ext3 and permissions are OK as I can save to it from the 
remote device using rsync

> 
> Just to be clear, make sure that you have tested SSH as the backuppc user, 
> not 
> root:
> 
> su - backuppc
> ssh root < at > 192.168.72.11
> 

Ahh -herein lies the problem. Thanks! At least that is clear now.  

I can rsync OK from my login but not when logged in as backuppc - it asks for 
the password.  However, I am using ubuntu and backuppc is a system user, so 
doesn't have a home directory - so where do I generate keys? Or can I somehow 
use the existing keys (which work under my login) for the backuppc user?

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