Nils,
thanks for the quick response.

$Conf{MaxUserBackups} seems to work in conjunction with $Conf{MaxBackups} to 
restrict the total number of simultaneous backups that can be run.  My tests 
appear to confirm this as a user is still able to manually start a backup when 
this value is set to 0 and no other backup is running.

I was hoping to find a solution which prevents the user from starting a backup 
but allows for a restore whenever required.

Have I missed your point?

SamK


> 
> From: "Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <nils AT lemonbit DOT com>
> Date: 2008/11/14 Fri AM 11:34:40 GMT
> To: "General list for user discussion,
>       questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] How to Prevent Users Starting a Backup
> 
> samk-01 AT ntlworld DOT com wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to stop a user from manually taking a full and/or  
> > incremental backup?  I have tried setting $Conf{MaxUserBackups} = 0;  
> > but this does not achieve the goal.
> >
> > Why do this?  I have a network in which all user home directories  
> > are stored on a dedicated file-server and therefore not stored  
> > locally on each PC.  The backups of the file-server are conducted  
> > using the schedule facility of BackupPC. This setup is working  
> > well.  To make it simpler for each user it will be preferred if they  
> > were able to conduct only restores.
> >
> > I am not a "coder" and anything beyond "commenting out" may be  
> > beyond my ability.  However, if anyone has any simple suggestions I  
> > am willing to test them.
> 
> See the $Conf{MaxUserBackups} setting: 
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_maxuserbackups_
> 
> Nils Breunese.
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