Hi I've successfully setup my backuppc box and it can backup a computer but now I want to add a 2nd one to the list to backup. I tried to run through these steps again on this page... http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_backuppc_p3 but I didn't have any luck. The only step I skipped was generating the key on the backupPC server. (since I did it for the first pc) I get down to the bottom (on the last step) to test it with the ssh command and I'm able to successfully connect to the first computer with out a password but the 2nd pc asks for the root password. On a side now I did run into some problems when I was copying the public key from the 2nd pc >>> to the Server. Code: root@newton:~# scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub [email protected]:/var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/client_id_rsa.pub [email protected]'s password: scp: /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/client_id_rsa.pub: No such file or directory So I went ahead and copied the file manually and renamed it. Any ideas if I'm doing this all wrong?
Ok, I got it working finally. I think this page was helpful, it explains what needs to happen for a key exchange. http://drupal.nieuwerbrug.org/?q=node/66 It's pretty much what the directions were saying but made it easier for me to see what needed to be done. I had to manually move the public keys around. Falko thanks for your help.
