To all I will do my best to not abuse the real generosity I have seen in the list every day over the years by doing my best not to post unnecessary questions or those not relevant to BackupPC.
I will also do the best I can to give back to the project to the extent I am able to help - certainly more down the road than at the moment. For example - I have extremely detailed notes on my most recent step-by-step process - which I'm happy to say is proceeding successfully with a "matched set" of Ubuntu's Lucid 10.04 (current LTS) server and its official BackupPC package, rather than mixing the latest Natty with the older package. These notes could easily be cleaned up into a "Basic installation of BackupPC on Ubuntu" howto for Linux beginners, and I would be happy to post that to the wiki, if TPTB on the list think it would be helpful to the project. On the other hand if more people feel like Tim (at least based on my interpretation of what he wrote), perhaps you'd prefer to only encourage people already advanced in Linux skills to implement BackupPC? It's true having more noobs trying it out would increase the need for support here. In which case I won't try to encourage new adopters that don't fit that profile. ---------------- Here's a snippet of a contribution for future noob googlers - I don't claim they're original but didn't keep the references in my notes, I believe they did come from this list: You can monitor the progress of a backup by opening two console windows from the server before initiating: watching the growth of the pc folder with du: - watch -n 10 -d 'sudo du -h --max-depth=4 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/{host_name} |sort -h -r and watching the files opened by the backuppc process, matching on an appropriate string - watch -n 5 "lsof -n -u backuppc | egrep 'cygdrive' | awk '{print }'" The latter assumes your client is windoze with the traditional cygdrive path setup - using "backuppc" as your search string will give more general results. Let's take this opportunity to close that mega-thread, for my excessive contributions to which I apologize. Thanks again for your patience. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/