Thanks to all for responding. So
far, I’ve learned several things:
- Fedora
distributions are short lived.
- Rsync
is the preferred transport.
Well, I kind of learned something. I
had already figured out that Fedora kept people moving along down the version
trail. I did not realize that they quit supporting issues so quickly.
I knew rsync was the preferred transport method and originally chose that, but
as reported in the original post, I was advised by my ‘harbor pilot’
in the Fedora forum to start with smb.
So far as the OS for my server, I have
Fedora 9, Centos and Ubuntu. Once I have learned enough about Linux in
general, I will set them up and review them before replacing what I currently
am running (I multi-boot).
So, the only progress so far is that you
recommend that I do what I had already decided was my second option (using
rsync) if fixing the current problem did not occur.
On this path, my next step is to set up
ssh-keys for BackupPC. Remember, that I am a novice in Linux. I
have instructions for creating the keys but find a discrepancy between the
instructions (written for Debian) and the Fedora setup. When creating
keys on the archive unit running BackupPC, the instructions say to be logged in
as user backuppc. Fedora 8 came with BackupPC installed and almost setup
to run with directories, file permissions and a user (backuppc) in existence
but set for no logon. Do I instead work as root? -- ken
From: dan
[mailto:dandenson AT gmail DOT com]
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008
9:01 PM
To: General
list for user discussion,questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users]
Almost working
Definitely go with rsync
for backups. This is a better choice.
Also, fedora 8 is a perfectly fine OS but I would suggest using either ubuntu
8.04 or centos5.2. Both are modern, stable distros tha tare easy to
maintain and manage and are free.
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