bigonroad wrote at about 14:21:19 -0500 on Saturday, February 20, 2010:
 > 
 > I now have BackupPC up and running on ubuntu 9.10. Thanks for your help guys!
 > 
 > I have a couple more issues. These relate to the fact that I am trying to 
 > use backuppc to backup files, but also to provide a central up to date store 
 > of network accessible files, so, for example, media files can be viewed over 
 > the network, rather than downloaded through the web interface. 
 > 
 > Thus I have the following problems:
 > 
 > 1. Access the files through the network
 > I want to have /var/lib/backuppc as a browsable folder through the network. 
 > I have managed to change permissions on the folders so they are browseable, 
 > but i need to set the file permissions so i can open the files. How do I do 
 > this, and set it so that all future backup files are given accessible 
 > permissions?
 > 
 > 2. A single store of files
 > I want one folder with all the incremental backups being copied into it, so 
 > to see the most up to date version of a file, I just browse to it in 
 > nautilus, or through shared folders from another pc on the network.
 > 
 > At the moment, I have a 0 and a 1 folder, and I am sure I will end up with 
 > loads more. I just want a single folder, no matter how many times the backup 
 > is made. 
 > 
 > 3. Change the Naming Convention
 > Also is there a way to change the naming convention so the folders are given 
 > the normal names (so Documents rather than fDocuments)?
 > 

Most of what you are saying doesn't make sense and/or is not workable
with straight backuppc.

But it can pretty much all be done using backuppcfs.pl which is a fuse
interface to the backuppc pc hierarchy including:
- Unmangled filenames
- Uncompressed files
- Correct ownership and permissions (assuming you have the user and
  group names in your /etc/password and /etc/group files)
- Links to 'latest' and 'oldest' backups

See the Wikki and/or google the Usenet archive for details...


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