I'm a newbie with limited Linux experience, but I've had BPC running for about 
a week on a test machine running Centos 5.5. So far I've successfully gotten 
backups for a Windows machine over SMB and another linux (CentOS) with rsync; 
however, I'm having trouble getting things to work for a Mac client running 
10.6.6 and am hoping for some help.

I am using rsync xfer and have tried setting things up as I did for the linux 
machine: created a public key in /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh. For the linux machine, 
I copied that to root on the client with ssh-copy-id and everything worked 
fine. One the Mac, root is not enabled, so I copied the key to the user's home 
directory. That worked in that I can ssh from the BPC server to the Mac user 
without a password. 

But when I try to run a backup on it, it fails with a "Unable to read 4 bytes" 
error. I've tried a lot changes to user and share in the host config file, but 
nothing works (/ vs /user/home, backuppc vs mac user as user) and nothing has 
worked. From some web searching I may have to get a key from the Mac onto the 
BPC server, but there is also this 
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=MacOS_X_secure_setup
in the wiki about setting up a backuppc user on the Mac.

Can someone give me guidance on the best way to get the Mac set up?

Thanks

Mike



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