Chris, i did it the way you suggested and it's now asking for a password when i 
ssh to the client machine.

Adam; when I try and run it as the backuppc user i get:

 $ ssh -l root cableweb3.ca whoami
The authenticity of host 'cableweb3.ca (50.21.229.37)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 3e:4c:c3:ac:96:a8:e0:8c:88:93:88:b2:e9:77:11:62.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts 
(/var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/known_hosts).


If it helps, im using ubuntu server 13.10 on the backuppc machine and ubuntu 
server 10.04 on the other. 



Also, because the backuppc user had no rights to generate keys at first.  I had 
to add the user to a few groups to actually get that ball rolling.

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