On Mar 23, 2011, at 9:25 AM, Michael Stowe wrote:
>> 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.
>
> You probably want to just enable root, in which case, you can essentially
> do the same thing as you did with Linux:
> http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1528
>
>> 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 probably want to shorten your steps and test ssh in this manner --
>
> On the BackupPC box:
> su - backuppc
> ssh testbox -l root
>
> In the above example, "testbox" is the box you want to make sure works
> with BackupPC, and "root" is the username in the RsyncClientCmd. If it
> doesn't work, get it working first before bothering with BackupPC backups
> -- it's almost certainly the source of your "Unable to read 4 bytes"
> error.
>
Thanks to Mike and Tyler Wagner. Enabling root (and making sure my include
files path had the proper case) worked. Now on to the next step, once I figure
what that is.
Mike
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