On 10/25/2019 6:05 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > Ah. Now I understand: if dirvish is backing up a host drive to an external > USB hard drive the client is just the host's name without a domain.tld. When > the backup is external then the domain.tld is used and root needs ssh > access.
It's actually: if the configured "client" matches the output of the "hostname" command, it's local, else it uses ssh. On my machines, "hostname" returns a name that includes the domain.tld, so to do a local backup I'd have to use that fully qualified name in the config file. Eric _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
