From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Server Backs Itself Up Instead Of The Client
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thursday, 26 April, 2012, 15:33

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 5:21 AM, MH Acct <mh_acct2 AT yahoo.co DOT uk> wrote:
>
> Hi, I set up BackupPC on an old Linux box I had (with a clean OS install) and got it backing up itself fine.  I then added my laptop to the pool and it seemed to back that up ok, but when I checked the backup I found that it had actually backed the local backup server again, instead of the remote laptop.
>
> $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo $rsyncPath $argList+';
>
> $Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo $rsyncPath $argList+';

Try using ssh instead of sudo for access to remote machines.

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