I'm sorry if I've been rude in my last mail.
I've been using BackupPC for years and never thought the documentation was not
sufficiently good.
I understand there is no ssh, tar, rsync or samba documentation in backupPC's
project, but, is it really the place to look for that information?
There are tons of pages and documents about any of those programs and I think
spending time on re-writing it is not practical.
This is a GPLed program, that relays on other GPLed programs, what's the reason
to redo the work others have already done? Maybe this is the right spot for the
authors to get BackupPC as a commercial product in which they provide full
support and extensible documentation.
But, again, if you ever run any flavor of unix and have certain experience with
it, you know tar, ssh and samba, and probably rsync, so you should only need to
"refresh" or extend your knowledge of them.
Again, I don't try to be rude, so if it sound a bit "snarky", I'm really sorry.
And, please, excuse my English, I'm from Spain.
El 06/03/2011, a las 18:07, Les Mikesell escribió:
> On 3/5/11 9:04 PM, OldManRiver wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> For backup I also tried Amanda, but never could get a succeful install of it.
>>
>
> It is basically a perl script that runs a bunch of standard tools to automate
> backups and provide a web interface to control and access them. If you don't
> know what ssh, rsync, tar, or smb do, you are going to have a hard time
> deciding
> how to automate them.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com
>
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