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 (

[Chris]

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:40:47 -0500
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 

I installed this under Ubuntu Server - it too uses backuppc.  Perhaps
the Op installed via a source tarball.

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Best regards,
Chris
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