Richard Thanks for this, I didn't think about doing it this way. Was hoping there might be away within BackupPC to stop backups from running. But this will do the trick.
Many Thanks Chris > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Chris Owen > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey. >> >> I have installed a new backuppc server and have tested the backups on >> the new server and I am now happy to switch off the old server. The >> server is running other services so I wanted to know if there is away to >> stop the backups from running so that I can keep the old backups on this >> server but carry on running the other services. >> > You didn't mention what variant of linux you are running, but on > Fedora/Redhat types it would be something like: > > service BackupPC stop > chkconfig BackupPC off > > Note that even though your archives will still be there, the web > service will also be stopped so they will not be directly accessible. > > Richard > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
