BackupPC is a great program once you get it working but it is a nightmare to configure. The version that comes with the base install of FC7 is 2.x but you can now get 3.0x. I have been able to get it to install 50% of the time using the scripts (

[Les Mikesell]

Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 01/10/2007, Paulo Cavalcanti <promac at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Since Fedora ships it with the user backuppc associated to the nologin,
>>> one has to set the ssh keys somehow, maybe changing the
>>> backuppc user to an ordinary login shell (bash), setting everything
>>> and then setting it back to nologin.
>>>
> 
> You should file a bug report about this - the packager should arrange
> for the creation of the needed ssh keys on installation if that is
> necessary for BackupPC.

I haven't installed this packaged version but I'd expect to be able to 
run as the backuppc user if you start as root and:

su -s /bin/bash - backuppc

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