Re: Adding Linux clients to backup

Am Montag 23 August 2004 11:54 schrieb Craig Barratt:
> "Michael Bellears" writes:
> > I have just installed BackupPC (2.1.0-3) on a Debian Sarge box.

Hi Michael,

please read the README.Debian in /usr/share/doc/backuppc. It has useful 
information about how to use backuppc on your debian system.

...

> I don't think Debian puts the data directory below /etc.  The
> backup files are likely stored somewhere else.

The Debian package puts the config in /etc/backuppc and the data directory is 
in /var/lib/backuppc. Because the path is hardencoded (you cannot run the 
configure on your own in the debian package for backuppc) the easiest way in 
debian to _move_ the datadir is to create a datadir anywhere you like and 
then create a symlink from /var/lib/backuppc to the new datadir.

...

> > Is the "standard" method to run rsync on Linux clients? (I notice there
> > is an rsyncd option also)
>
> Yes.  Although some people are happy using tar.

The default debian installation of backuppc is only useful for backing up via 
smb. 
If you plan to use rsync/rsyncd then this packages have to be installed: 
rsync, libfile-rsyncp-perl.

--Ralph


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