Tyler J. Wagner wrote:

>> The user interface and docs on this product have no explanation of how
>> this works.  It contians only commands, with no description of the
>> commands, what they do and/or encompass, so how does one use this.

> Please excuse the snarky comments. What Cesar was trying to say was that
> you haven't looked very hard at all. Please read:
> 
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#backuppc_introduction
> http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/backuppc.htm
> http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/BackupPC

I have some sympathy for the OP.
BackupPC has been running faultlessly on my CentOS-5 system
for a couple of years.
(I followed the default, so there are incremental backups
6 days out of 7, with a full backup every week.
I also use BackupPC's archive facility
to save the backup to an external drive every month.)

But I did find it quite difficult to get going,
with the infuriating (and useless) error message
"Unable to read 4 bytes" coming up repeatedly.

In my case the problem was to do with ssh authentication.

I don't think any of the documentation you cite is all that good.
In particular the sourceforge official documentation is absurdly long.

So I would advise the OP to stick to BackupPC, and persevere.
Sooner or later it will work, and after that there will be nothing to do.
But if you have continuing problems, try to explain a little more clearly
exactly what the symptoms are.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland


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