Rob Owens wrote:

> Hi Sam.  I saw that you have had some trouble with your Debian /
> BackupPC installation.  I have BackupPC running on a few Debian  
> servers
> right now.  1 is Debian Etch, and 2 are Debian Lenny.
>
> On Etch, I did this:
> 1) apt-get install backuppc (this installs BackupPC 2.x and all
> dependencies)
> 2) apt-get remove backuppc (maybe use the --purge option to remove
> config files to, but I can't remember if I did that)
> 3) download BackupPC 3.0 and libfile-rsync-perl from the testing
> repository, and install using "dpkg -i <packagename>"
> 4) I think I had to correct some permissions that weren't correct,
> namely I had to "chown -R backuppc.www-data /etc/backuppc" (and I  
> might
> have had to do the same thing for /var/lib/backuppc -- I can't  
> remember)

What are steps 1 and 2 good for? I'd do just step 3 if I wanted to  
install BackupPC 3 on Debian Etch.

Nils Breunese.

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