+1. This was the exact point I was trying to make.
As an additional point to the original poster: you said somethng like "OK,
I'll start over, but with my original config and pool.". NO!!! Start with a
100% clean setup. Make it work, and document EVERY LITTLE THING you do to make
that happen. THEN start making SMALL configuration changes, again documenting
along the way.
It's better to start from success and make small changes than to start from
failure. With failure, you have no way of knowing if the changes you're making
are having any effect...
Timothy J. Massey
Out of the Box Solutions Inc.
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On Sep 3, 2011, at 11:47 PM, "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backu...@kosowsky.org>
wrote:
> hans...@gmail.com wrote at about 14:18:41 +0700 on Saturday, September 3,
> 2011:
> > On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Timothy J Massey
> <tmas...@obscorp.com>wrote:
> >
> > > But would probably be a very good idea. What would be an even better
> idea
> > > would be to grab a spare PC (or a virtual guest) and test it from a
> > > completely clean installation. And document the *heck* out of what you
> do:
> > > you *will* be doing it again (and again and again....).
> > >
> >
> > Well the whole thing is a test system, and I'm not that concerned with
> > figuring out what went wrong vs moving forward, so I guess I'll just wipe
> > and restart with a clean OS.
> >
> > Since I want to use the BackupPC 3.1 package (eventual production system
> > will be on CentOS5), while I'm at it I'll use the Ubuntu version it's
> > designed for, Lucid 10.04, rather than the latest Natty 11.04.
> >
> > Hopefully will eliminate the problems I'm seeing un/re- installing from
> > the package system.
> >
> > I plan to keep the pool folders and of course my long-tweaked config.pl,
> but
> > will start off from the clean install with as close to defaults as possible
> > with a small static target share to test with, then make the changes a
> > little at a time only after I've got the basics working right.
> >
> > Which as you say I should've done from the start. . .
> >
> > In the meantime there are a few unanswered questions in the thread above if
> > anyone has the information to ontribute more detailed responses I'm sure
> it
> > will help others googling later on. . .
>
> 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.
>
> Why don't you pursue this in a rational and organized approach? Get
> the basic system working with no modifications. Verify that it works,
> play with it, and get comfortable with the default setup and
> behaviors. Then step-by-step make one change at a time. If the change
> works as expected, then move on to the next change. If it doesn't then
> you know the exact source of the problem and can either troubleshoot
> it yourself (ideal) or ask a specific question to the list.
>
> What you are doing now is confusing yourself and probably most of the
> readers of the list. Pretty soon people will get tired of answering
> you or will lose track of all the questions and changes you have made
> meaning that they won't be around to help you when you really need it.
>
> Thanks
>
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