Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backing up the backup server [SOLVED]

[Brian C]

Thanks Keith!

Keith Edmunds wrote:
[snip]
> - if all else fails, set 'LogLevel' to 'DEBUG' in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, 
> restart the sshd daemon and post the results of a failed login from 
> /var/log/auth (or maybe 'syslog', depending on your setup).

This idea showed the problem. Even though when contacting the remote 
server I needed the "from" portion of /root/.ssh/authorized_keys to be 
the bizarre result of dig -x my.ip.add.res (which comes back as 
node-########.sfo.onnet.us.uu.net which I presume is what my DSL 
provider calls my static IP despite it resolving via DNS to something 
totally different) when connecting locally the "from" portion needed to 
be my regular hostname.domainname.tld.

I can now accomplish unattended backups via the backup user for both 
remote servers and the backup server itself. Thanks to everyone for 
their help and to the developers for this great software!

Brian