Re: rsync problems

Dan Fleischer writes:

> As the BackupPC user I can successfully rsync the /etc directory from a
> remote server (having already exchanged ssh2 keys) using the following
> command:
> 
> rsync -av -e ssh root@remoteserver:/etc backupdir
> 
> However I am unable to use rsync within BackupPC v2.1.0pl1 to get the
> remoteserver's /etc directory.  I keep getting an email with the error
> 'fileListReceive failed'.
> 
> Any ideas on how I should configure the config.pl?

Try this command:

    ssh -l root remoteserver whoami

It should just print "root".  Do you get any extraneous output?  Are
you prompted for a password?

Please send the output from BackupPC_dump -f -v HOST again.

Craig


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