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 (

Jonathan Underwood jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 00:07:53 UTC 2007


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.




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