[Dirvish] Setting up new backup [WORKING]

[Paul Slootman]

On Fri 25 Oct 2019, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Oct 2019, Paul Slootman wrote:
> 
> > Right!
> > So you should NOT add the domain in the client: line, just:
> > client: salmo
> 
> Paul,
> 
> Well! Had this been in the howto it would have saved us all a lot of time,
> effort, and grief.

I did ask for the output of the "hostname" command three times...

> The howto shows:
> 
> "First, the client specifies the host target. client is the hostname, and
> possibly username, necessary to access the filesystem on the target machine
> specified by tree.
> 
> client: root at some.example.com"

The HOWTO.Debian that I wrote many years ago (2003!) when packaging
dirvish for Debian does state:

  The client line defines which system the data is to come from. If this is to
  be a local backup i.e. the backup is made on the same system, put the output
  from the hostname command here. dirvish will then know that the network is
  not to be used.

Perhaps that literal text should be added to the "standard" HOWTO.

> Thanks very much!

At least we got it working, although we still don't know why your ssh
setup doesn't allow root.

Paul