Thanks for your response, Carl. I'm not trying to start a flame war over command-line vs. GUI, but I thought this was an amusing exchange:
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > itismike wrote: > > While the charm of OSS is that the code is easily accessible, I've found > > that most of the documentation steps refer to editing curly bracket > > objects, which is great for developers, but not-so-great for everyday > > administration: Rsync/Rsyncd Configuration > > $Conf{RsyncClientPath} = ''; > > Path to rsync executable on the client > > $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $host $rsyncPath > > $argList+'; > > Full command to run rsync on the client machine. The following > > variables are substituted at run-time: > > And the GUI actually has a drop-down list for choosing the type of > > backup: > Not sure what you're getting at here, or what your original message looked > like. Perhaps try posting in a block of plain text? That's a quote from the documentation on the main site (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#rsync_rsyncd_configuration) describing how to enable rsync by editing the config.pl file. I thought you would have recognized it. :o I know it's out-of-context, but my point is that someone went to a lot of trouble to create a very nice GUI for the product, but there doesn't seem to be a basic guide on how to use it. BackupPC is maturing and has been available in repositories for simple apt or "point-and-click" installations for several years. And it appears that the GUI was designed so thoroughly that it's not even necessary to edit the config files in some cases. It is necessary to create secure trusts between clients and the server, but this info is buried within the config-file-centric documentation. I think what is missing is a very general checklist for first-timers, such as: install BackupPC add hosts under the Edit Hosts page enable communication between server and client(s) Windows clients: see this post (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#winxx) Linux/UNIX clients: see this post (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#linux_unix) check the Host Summary page and review log filesIf there's an appropriate wiki to be edited I'll be glad to help with it. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [email protected] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [email protected]. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
