Re: [BackupPC-users] Time to upgrade from 2.1.2?

2007-05-24 Thread Miles Thompson
.deb, which could keep me v. busy chasing dependencies, I guess I'll just waste some disk space and accept that some directories will inadvertently be picked up from the desktops. Thanks for everyone's suggestions and encouragement. Regards - Miles Thompson PS Oh yes, I reset my sources.list

Re: [BackupPC-users] Time to upgrade from 2.1.2?

2007-05-24 Thread Miles Thompson
Holger Parplies wrote: > > as a rule of thumb, if you installed through the package management system, > you should also upgrade through it. > > This is especially true for BackupPC on Debian, because it uses non-standard > paths (/etc/backuppc instead of /etc/BackupPC) and patched scripts. Severa

Re: [BackupPC-users] Time to upgrade from 2.1.2?

2007-05-22 Thread Miles Thompson
Holger Parplies wrote: > Hi, > > Miles Thompson wrote on 22.05.2007 at 09:08:39 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Time to > upgrade from 2.1.2?]: > >> Martin Sundmacher wrote: >> >>> Miles Thompson schrieb: >>> >>>> We used apt-get to fe

Re: [BackupPC-users] Time to upgrade from 2.1.2?

2007-05-22 Thread Miles Thompson
Martin Sundmacher wrote: > Miles Thompson schrieb: > >> We used apt-get to fetch and install BackupPC on our Edgy Eft server. >> The version is apparently 2.1.2 dated 5 Sept, 2005 according to the >> comments in the main BackupPC file. >> >> >> It&#x

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with per-PC config file

2007-05-18 Thread Miles Thompson
Dawn Susini Wallis wrote: > When BackupPC runs a backup, it does not look at my per-PC config file. > I know this because I have different settings for authentication in the > per-PC config. Is there something I'm missing on per-PC config settings? > I believe I followed the instructions in the

[BackupPC-users] Time to upgrade from 2.1.2?

2007-05-17 Thread Miles Thompson
We used apt-get to fetch and install BackupPC on our Edgy Eft server. The version is apparently 2.1.2 dated 5 Sept, 2005 according to the comments in the main BackupPC file. It's only been running a couple of weeks; would an upgrade be painful? Are there clear advantages? Regards -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up excluded directories

2007-05-15 Thread Miles Thompson
creating a new full back up, is it actually picking up changes in > that directory or are the original files just still showing up? > > > On 5/11/07, *Travis Fraser* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 15:22 -0

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up excluded directories

2007-05-11 Thread Miles Thompson
original full backup? Regards - Miles Thompson James wrote: > you may need to add '/My\ Music' or '/My Music' to your list of > directories to exclude, I can't remember at the moment if you need to > escape the space (using the backslash) or whether '/My Music&

[BackupPC-users] Backing up excluded directories

2007-05-11 Thread Miles Thompson
er in the right direction would be appreciated. Regards - Miles Thompson - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just da

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cannot run BackupPC_dump from command line

2007-05-03 Thread Miles Thompson
Rob Munsch wrote: > -Original Message- > *From: *Miles Thompson > *Sent: *5/3/2007 3:31 PM > *To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Subject: *[BackupPC-users] Cannot run BackupPC_dump from command line > > > I have searched the archive, but had no success. I am unable to run

[BackupPC-users] Cannot run BackupPC_dump from command line

2007-05-03 Thread Miles Thompson
ns to "/etc/init.d/backuppc" which I presently have to "sudo" to execute. I am not a Linux expert and after two days of this I am feeling pretty frustrated. The Linux box is Ubuntu Edgy Eft, Server version.