On 1/17/2011 12:18 AM, itismike wrote:
> I'm running an Ubuntu client with ecryptFS enabled. Since my home directory 
> is encrypted, I'd like to perform the backup as myself rather than root so 
> the files are browsable by me and restore is possible. Here is another thread 
> (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10082444&postcount=4) that explains 
> the reason for this setup.
>
> So my intent is to put my username in the RsyncClientCmd and 
> RsyncClientRestoreCmd commands like this:
> $sshPath -q -x -l michael $host $rsyncPath $argList+
>
> The problem is I haven't been able to get past the message below:
> 2011-01-16 14:03:16 full backup started for directory /
> 2011-01-16 14:03:17 Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes)
> 2011-01-16 14:03:22 Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes)
>
> Google tells me this points to an inability to ssh to the box, but I set up 
> ssh-keygen and can establish passwordless ssh connections between the server 
> and client (and vice-versa.)
>
> Am I going about this whole solution backwards, or if not, how can I diagnose 
> this a little better?

Are you testing as the backuppc user?  Make sure you can establish a
passwordless connection from the backuppc user on the server to your client.

-- 
Bowie

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