Nils, thanks for your reply.

i CAN ssh into the client with the backuppc user from the backuppc
server. to log into the client i need to supply the root password. how
does backuppc know what the root password is to log in??? i never
specified the root password in config.pl. is this something rsync
takes care of???

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