Holger Parplies wrote at about 06:10:48 +0100 on Friday, January 9, 2009: > Hi, > > Cody Dunne wrote on 2009-01-09 10:58:27 +0800 [Re: [BackupPC-users] vista > backup question]: > > Holger Parplies wrote: > > > you keep quoting your guide. How about contributing the information (or > > > at > > > least the pointer, but better the information) to the wiki? > > > > I copied the excludes a while back to the Common_backup_excludes page on > > the wiki, and keep it updated. If anyone wants to put a link to the > > other parts of my guide on the wiki or even make a page for all of it, > > they're welcome to as long as they cite the source. I'm not interested > > in maintaining both copies, though. > > I don't really care one way or the other. Personally, I don't visit random > web > sites. If I was looking for information on BackupPC, I'd look at the wiki. > When I give references, those will be to the wiki. If your guide was part of > the wiki, I'd look at it, reference it, and maybe make suggestions for > improvements (or add them to the wiki myself). As it isn't, I won't (I don't > reference what I haven't looked at). > > The BackupPC software is open source and available through sourceforge. If > you > prefer to offer documentation elsewhere, that is your choice (you may have > good reasons for doing so - I don't know). Providing documentation is > commendable. Making it easily available would be even more so. But that's > just > my opinion. > > There is a lot of information available on the mailing list. Much of it > doesn't get copied into the wiki. I'm not sure why, but I'm sure that's a > pity. And it's no coincidence I explicitly cc'ed Jeffrey ;-). >
Hmmm... I had to think for a few moments to understand the reference... I assume you are referring to my comments a couple of days ago about how people keep asking the same questions and that maybe it should be added to the FAQ. My problem is that I am from the pre-Wiki and pre-HTML generation and am a bit of a Luddite in never getting into them or figuring out how/why to edit them. So, I was thinking in the context of the old command-and-control ASCII-based FAQ list where it is owned by one person and edited in emacs (or if you must vi). Maybe I should figure out what this whole Wiki/HTML/WYSIWYG thing is all about one day... (for full disclosure, I also never use the web interface for BackupPC except as a way to pretty-print status and backup history since I much prefer CLI's and editing config files by hand -- hence why I was pushing for a fusefs representation of backups rather than the slow and clunky web navigation). Still as a general comment, it would be nice if new users would at least tried to search the archive or even google before asking the same questions. I'm not perfect, but I at least make an attempt ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/