On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 08:37 -0500, Michael Conner wrote:
> 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.

You have two choices:

1. Enable the root account and put the key on the root account.

2. Back up via any user with sudo access, similar to the guide you
posted.

Regards,
Tyler

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