HowTo BackupPC SSH Key Authentication Setup For rsync Transfer

Overview

This page provides a reference for how to setup SSH key-based authentication for BackupPC rsync file transfer backups. Additional information can be found here: BackupPC SSH Setup.

NST BackupPC Client Setup Example For SSH Key-based Authentication

The steps shown below for SSH key-based authentication assumes that the BackupPC user is set to: "backuppc" and the file transfer method is: "rsync".

su - backuppc -s /bin/bash

ssh-keygen -t rsa

ssh root@10.222.222.107

ssh root@10.222.222.107 install -m 700 -d .ssh

cat id_rsa.pub | ssh root@10.222.222.107 tee -a .ssh/authorized_keys