Alright maybe you guys can help me figure out why I cant get this right. Im 
following the directions on http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/ssh.html.

Ive generated a private and public key on both client and backuppc servers.  

ive named my public key from the backup PC server thusly;
cp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ~/.ssh/BackupPC_id_rsa.pub

I then copied that file to the client servers root/.ssh folder and added it to 
the autherized keys list. 
touch ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2
cat BackupPC_id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2

Because my backuppc server does not have a dns resolvable hostname, i used 
from="IPADDRESS" in the autherized_keys2 file 

After that i copied the clients public key over to /root/.ssh/ on the backup 
server.  added it to known hosts and then fixed permissions.


when i run the backup i get the following xfer log;


Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/cableweb3.ca/XferLOG.bad.z, modified 
2013-11-25 14:53:54

full backup started for directory /var/lib/psa/dumps
Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root cableweb3.ca /usr/bin/rsync --server 
--sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times 
--block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /var/lib/psa/dumps/
Xfer PIDs are now 27202
Read EOF: Connection reset by peer
Tried again: got 0 bytes
Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes)
Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes)
Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one 
(got 0 and 0 files versus 0)


Im completely stumped.  Any suggestions?

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