rsnapshot

[@lbutlr]

On 15 Feb 2020, at 19:23, @lbutlr <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
>  am setting a backup from one machine to another. This is  brand new install of Rsnapshot on a brand new install of FreeBSD 12.1, the server the is being backed up is run-in 11.4.

I think I have solved this one of two possible ways.

1) Write a script on the server that rsnapshot uses instead of rsync to launch sudo rsync. This requires passing all the usual arguments that rsnapshot uses for rsync manually.

+rsync_long_args=--rsync-path=/path/to/myrsnapscript --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded --exclude=core

2) allow root login in sshd.conf (Since logins require a certificate, this is not as bad as it might seem).

I went with option 1, and allow the backup user access to that one line bash script.



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