Trying to get my ducks in a row before I tackle changing my backups over to rsync this weekend and have a couple questions before I begin.

Setup:  Ubuntu 12.10 running backuppc, 4 windows boxes

Current backup:  Ubuntu was setup for TAR backup on itself [localhost] and I added smb backups for the windows boxes.

Goal:  move everything over to rsync

So in doing my research, I am confused more by rsync for the [localhost] since most instructions are for backing up remote machines.  I assume I don't need to have any ssh keys for rsyncing items from [localhost]?  

I found some Ubuntu instructions and they show the settings as:

$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $hostIP $rsyncPath $argList+';
$Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $hostIP $rsyncPath $argList+';

I guess I am also wondering if I should be using "root" in that command.  It seems like even if I am backing up [localhost] I should be using sudo for the command??  

I should add, that for the current tar command [localhost] backup, I did add backuppc user to have no password for the tar command.  Not sure if I should be doing that for rsync then as well or if it will be fine.  (Ubuntu BackupPC Help) 

Add backuppc to the sudoers list

• Run “sudo visudo”
• At the bottom of the file add

# Allow backuppc to run tar without a password
backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/tar

I am going to try to setup [localhost] first using rsync, then move to the windows boxes.  Seems like there are some better instructions out there that I have found for them, but I am sure I will run into something!  I plan on using cygwin on the windows machines.  Again, thanks for answering questions, it is appreciated.  I want to make sure I do this right and don't blindly follow some bad instructions and get to some point I can't recover from.

Travis Schwenke

Ubuntu newbie (with some computer skills) and real backuppc newbie  :)