Here's some notes from our internal Wiki for enabling BackupPC. With this
method, there's no reason that you couldn't backup the entire system.
Enable ssh access
System Preferences/Sharing
Check - Remote Login
Create and populate /var/root/.ssh/authorized_keys
Applications/Utilities/Terminal
sudo su -
mkdir .ssh
chmod 700 .ssh
echo '[backuppc user public key]' >> .ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys
exit
Note the "backup public key looks something like:
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc... [a couple lines of hash] ....ISXXYosqZQ==
backuppc@server
Ray Frush "Either you are part of the solution
T:970.288.6223 or part of the precipitate."
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On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Michael Stowe
<[email protected]>wrote:
>
> > Thanks Ray and Kris for the advice. I checked and found I’ve got 3GB of
> > memory in my BackupPC Server, so it seems that it should be sufficient.
> >
> > What user context does BackupPC connect to the machine under in order to
> > get it to back up properly? Do you enable the root user on the Mac? Or do
> > you create an administrative user of some sort on the macintosh and run
> > rsync as that user?
> >
> > Justin Best
> > 360.513.1489
>
> I enable the root user and back them up just like any [other] *nix system.
> I only bother excluding temporary files, and I've never had a problem.
>
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