On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
<backu...@kosowsky.org>wrote:
> Just a piece of friendly advice... you seem to have posted dozens of
> posts in the past 24 hours or so... you keep making multiple, often
> non-standard or nonsensical changes to a standard
> configuration... and are asking multiple questions as you dig yourself
> deeper.
>
Thanks very Jeffrey, and to everyone, both for specific answers to my
questions and for your valuable general advice and feedback.
About my messing things up by my lack of *nix knowledge and making things
too complicated, you're completely right and I apologize for wasting your
time with my scattered approach to the learning curve.
Re packaging issues, I'm not trying to figure them out at all, AFAIC they're
a "black box" that just works - I plan to just observe their results and
stick to their policies (I didn't realize BPC permissions could vary from
one distro to another). If necessary, I will now be able to just roll back
to a virgin state via CloneZilla, rather than un-installing.
Re OS choices, I don't have the access, knowledge or desire to do my initial
learning/experimentation in the production CentOS CLI environment; for many
aspects it's so much easier to work with a distro like Ubuntu at this
stage. Once I'm confident I've got the BPC side of things working just
right, the CentOS guy can set up the production server however he likes.
My ultimate goal is to have a self-contained BackupPC HDD - conf and log
physically under TOPDIR - which in the event of a disaster can be mounted
to a new host running an arbitrary distro, possibly needing to be created by
a staffer even more ignorant of Linux than myself supported by a
step-by-step howto. Ideally I'd like to figure out how to create a
customized BackupPC LiveCD that could be stored with the drive(s) offsite.
These goals also support my doing the learning/configuration work on an
alternative distro.
But for now, I am starting from scratch with 3.1 on Lucid, working step by
step in departing from the defaults, testing and keeping careful notes in
case I need to come back here with further issues, so as not to waste you
guys' time further.
Thanks again for your help.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE!
Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better
price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you
download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY!
http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev
_______________________________________________
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/
