Les Mikesell wrote:

> There should be no need to read source, though.

Absolutely.
Anyone who says you should read the source
to find out how to use a program is talking nonsense.
The only time this could possibly make sense
is if the program is not running properly.

> Just pick which xfer
> type is appropriate (or if you want advice, describe your potential
> targets and the OS they run), and learn enough about how it works to set
> the documented configuration variables for backuppc - which you can
> mostly do through it's web interface.

My experience is that BackupPC was fairly hard to get running,
due mainly to a lack of common sense on the part of the documenters,
who seem never to have thought about what difficulties
people on planet earth might actually meet when setting up BackupPC.
But once it is running the help on the web interface is very good.

It reminds me rather of CUPS in this regard.


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