Thanks for the response, Brad.

I need to clarify that I can backup other hosts just NOT the localhost and I am confused as to why I cannot.

I see, by your "backup command" that your using rsync. Is this the command to backup your localhost?

I just tried ssh-ing into the locahost (first time I can remember that experience) and it worked.

Re-ran my test command "sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f localhost" and got the same "Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /)" and "Can't cd to /root: Permission denied".

Scratching my head! What is it?

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On 2016-07-19 07:22, Brad Alexander wrote:

I am running backuppc-3.3.1-2 on a Debian/sid box, I am ssh-ing into the box and have a limited set of sudo commands that backuppc can execute. This is as opposed to ssh-ing in as root.

I have the following in my /etc/sudoers.d/backuppc account:

Cmnd_Alias    BACKUP=/bin/tar, /usr/bin/rsync, /usr/bin/mysqldump, /usr/local/sbin/dbdump
backuppc        ALL=NOPASSWD:BACKUP

Then I am able to run backups.

First step, can you ssh into the local host? Second step, can you simulate the backup command? In my case it is

/usr/bin/ssh -q -x farragut sudo /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --checksum-seed=32761 --ignore-times . /

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Robert Wooden <rbrtewdn AT comcast DOT net> wrote:

Is this backing up of the localhost functional for anyone? Surely?

 

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Subject: [BackupPC-users] localhost Can't cd to /root: Permission denied

 

I am in the process of rebuilding a Backuppc machine (hard drive died) and never (even before hdd died) got backing up localhost (via tar) to backup. As a result of the rebuild I have gotten into backing up the localhost again.

 

I have made the adjustments to "TarClientCmd" and "TarClientRestoreCmd" as instructed at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupPC (near the end) as well as adjusted "visudo". (This use to work.)

 

When I run: "sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f localhost" to troubleshoot the issue and the final lines returned are "Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /)" and "Can't cd to /root: Permission denied".

 

Much search engine searching the 'issue' returns next to nothing.

 

This use to work at some point (Ubuntu v14.04LTS and Backuppc 3.3.0, I think) but, something changed and now building on v16.04LTS with Backuppc v3.3.1 it does not.

 

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