Re: [BackupPC-users] (no subject)

2008-02-05 Thread GerryMc
Being a novice I hesitate to give advice but I had the same problem which I solved by adding a link apache.conf to backuppc.conf as I found on this site: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/BackupPC Then restart apache. Hope that helps GerryMc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fresh Install with new hard disk

2007-12-31 Thread GerryMc
dan wrote: > you can make root own it and give everyone wrx access. the script > will put the appropriate permissions in place for the installed > folders. then after the install you can match the /var/lib/backuppc > permissions with that of the subfolders. Just to report backup and close this

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fresh Install with new hard disk

2007-12-30 Thread GerryMc
interface. I think I will give it a try "as is" and see what happens. I have no data at risk anyway yet. chown it first. save a headache. On Dec 29, 2007 10:20 AM, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: GerryMc wrote: > After experimenting with Backuppc and liking what I saw,

[BackupPC-users] Fresh Install with new hard disk

2007-12-29 Thread GerryMc
After experimenting with Backuppc and liking what I saw, I added a new 500GB internal drive. Because of other hardware changes that I made I had to reinstall the OS (Ubuntu 7.10). So Backupppc is not currently installed but the new extra HD is fitted and mounted as /var/lib/backuppc. Having created

Re: [BackupPC-users] Correct syntax for Exclude

2007-12-08 Thread GerryMc
Dan, Thanks - that was it. What you said made sense when I thought about it. I left out the share name from the exclude line and my first backup has just completed!! -Original Message- From: dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 December 2007 16:27 To: GerryMc Cc: backuppc-users

[BackupPC-users] Correct syntax for Exclude

2007-12-08 Thread GerryMc
I am new to Linux but so far have got Ubuntu installed on a spare box and added backuppc to perform a backup role for my two Windows machines. Backuppc is running and starts a backup but fails because of lack of disk space, the problem being large video files which I don't actually want to backup.