On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 13:15 -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 10/29 08:16 , Richard Shaw wrote:
> > There is surprisingly little info on how BackupPC really works, at
> > least with the google searches I've tried. I'm just looking for a
> > concise overview of how the different backup methods work and how they
> > are different from one another.
> 
> Reading /etc/backuppc/config.pl is remarkably informative. I suggest it to
> all Backuppc users.

And to be honest, so is the web-based inline documentation that comes
with it. Nearly all you need to understand about BackupPC, you can learn
by configuring it once. Perhaps this is why it isn't documented
elsewhere.

Regards,
Tyler

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