plattfot
PSA for those interested in backing up snapshots from a remote host
You can accomplish this by setting
--type pull
and defining the PATH as
baksnapper@host-to-backup:/path/where/backups/should/live/on/this/machine
this is highly counter-intuitive as the path is not on the defined host.
the resulting command look something like this:
/usr/bin/baksnapper --config home --private-key /root/.ssh/baksnapper --type pull [email protected]:/backups
if you create a baksnapper user and define
baksnapper ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/baksnapperd (adjust the path to wherever you put it)
in your sudoers file on the host you want to back up, it will have all the permissions it needs to function.
if you also set command="sudo baksnapperd $SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND" instead of command="baksnapperd $SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND" in that users authorized_keys file
Thanks for the write up!
Yeah, not my greatest UI design. The pull feature is more of an after thought and it made a bit more sense when I had it split back in v0.3 i.e baksnapper --ssh host --type pull path.
Note sure what the best way would be to improve this though.
Closing this as the new interface where you explicitly specify the source and destination solves the counterintuitive interface when using --config