On Oct 5, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Vaughan Roberts wrote:
I have been using backuppc to backup win-boxes onto a Linux server
using cygwin rsync running on the win-boxes. Now I am trying to use
backuppc on some Macs (OS X), but I am having difficulty get it to
work.
The setup and
I use rsync 3.0.6 on my macs and it work perfectly and very stable and
reliable.
I recommend using 3.0.6 because of stability. 2.9.6 had a problem on
filesystems with too many hard links on it (memory allocation problem)
Check this out:
installing rsync 3.0.6 on a Mac Leopard (requires
on the second point, yes, you can override the backup method in the host
based config files. i use tar, rsync, and smb, depending on the host.
as a more general question, what can be overridden and what cannot, in the
machine based config files? are there any restrictions?
specifically, can
Omid wrote:
on the second point, yes, you can override the backup method in the
host based config files. i use tar, rsync, and smb, depending on the
host.
as a more general question, what can be overridden and what cannot, in
the machine based config files? are there any restrictions?
it's a shame that there's not an option for an email address.
as it is, the email address has to be a combination of the main host login,
and the destdomain.
or am i wrong...?
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com wrote:
Omid wrote:
on the second point, yes, you
Omid wrote:
it's a shame that there's not an option for an email address.
as it is, the email address has to be a combination of the main host
login, and the destdomain.
or am i wrong...?
The email address is a combination of the user and the destdomain. You
can always use an alias or
(apologies if this is a duplicate. i got a bounce message...)
it's a shame that there's not an option for an email address.
as it is, the email address has to be a combination of the main host login,
and the destdomain.
or am i wrong...?
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Bowie Bailey
James Kyle wrote at about 09:02:14 -0700 on Tuesday, October 6, 2009:
On Oct 5, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Vaughan Roberts wrote:
I have been using backuppc to backup win-boxes onto a Linux server
using cygwin rsync running on the win-boxes. Now I am trying to use
backuppc on some
I have been using backuppc to backup win-boxes onto a Linux server using
cygwin rsync running on the win-boxes. Now I am trying to use backuppc on
some Macs (OS X), but I am having difficulty get it to work. There have
been some comments that rsync is not a good option for the Mac due to its
