Are you just looking to back up one computer, or several?
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Laurin d'Volts wrote:
> If I'm reading things correctly, a BackupPC server cannot be created on
> Windows XP? Is this right?
>
> Can any of you think of a way that it could be done? I'm thinking
> perhaps
> If I'm reading things correctly, a BackupPC server cannot be created on
> Windows XP? Is this right?
That is correct; many of the filesystem features on which BackupPC relies
are implemented quite differently, to the extent that they're available at
all under Windows XP.
> Can any of you think
It's like this. A spoon that you find in your kitchen is designed to be used
as a spoon. If you use it for its intended purpose, then it will probably
last you 50 or 100 years. If you decide to use that spoon to dig holes in
your garden, then the spoon is probably going to break pretty soon. It wi
Laurin d'Volts wrote:
> If I'm reading things correctly, a BackupPC server cannot be created on
> Windows XP? Is this right?
>
> Can any of you think of a way that it could be done? I'm thinking
> perhaps using some kind of virtual Linux OS inside of Windows. Perhaps a
> Debian virtualization in W
You may create linux in virtualbox/vmware on XP
then install backuppc there.
backuppc uses hardlinks which is works very well under linux and
nightmare on win*
,so you have to use linux for backuppc ( native or virtual )
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Laurin d'Volts wrote:
> If I'm reading t
If I'm reading things correctly, a BackupPC server cannot be created on
Windows XP? Is this right?
Can any of you think of a way that it could be done? I'm thinking
perhaps using some kind of virtual Linux OS inside of Windows. Perhaps a
Debian virtualization in Windows XP would work?
And for tho
