Author: OldManRiver <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 22:04:06 -0500
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
You should buy a commercial product CKM El 06/03/2011, a las 04:04, OldManRiver <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT -- What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an
Author: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:10:16 +0000
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
Author: Timothy Murphy <gayleard AT eircom DOT net>
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 12:46:07 +0000
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 f
Author: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:02:48 +0000
That's a fair point. BackupPC assumes you have already sorted out the authentication system before setting up clients. I'm a nut for SSH, but even I found the "Unable to read 4 bytes" error unusually
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 11:07:27 -0600
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 ar
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 docume
I for one didn't find your comment "snarky" at all. Many people are so "religious" about open source that they interpret a (IMO perfectly valid in certain circumstances) suggestion to use COTS softwa
Agreed. If everyone who had their posting misinterpreted could make as eloquent and well-thought explanation and apology as you did, the Internet (and world in general) would be a much better place.
Author: Michael Hughes <itismike AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 10:38:04 -0600
This was going to be my first response as well. But I have to admit I found myself in the same position as the OP. I read the BackupPC documentation (or as much as I thought was necessary,) installed
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:49:06 -0600
On the other hand, if you have a specific question or run into a problem while trying to follow the installation instructions I think you will find that people are more than willing to help. -- Les M
Author: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:00:30 +0000
You've probably identified why I assumed that. I didn't even consider his response in any other light. Please accept my apologies, Cesar. Agreed. Thanks for responding so clearly, Cesar. That's a val
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote: Absolutely - my point is the "don't complain' part. Suggestions for improvement are part of the development process
Author: Timothy Murphy <gayleard AT eircom DOT net>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:30:16 +0000
I completely disagree. Any program offered to the public should be properly documented. This has nothing to do with open source. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-233609
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 07:49:51 -0600
The source is always the ultimate documentation. If you have that you can always find out what the program does and how. But, I think the issue here is how much a program that uses other programs as
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:50:09 -0500
Timothy Murphy wrote at about 13:30:16 +0000 on Tuesday, March 8, 2011: No program - open source or commercial - *need* to be documented. However, presence and quality of documentation will determine
Author: Timothy Murphy <gayleard AT eircom DOT net>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:22:29 +0000
It depends what you mean by "need". I follow Donald Knuth's belief in "Literate Programming" that documentation and program should go together, for the sake of the program writer as well as the user.
Author: Timothy Murphy <gayleard AT eircom DOT net>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:24:06 +0000
Not in a finite length of time. -- 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 -- What You D
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:44:48 -0600
Yes, but wiki's and mail lists let you scale that time by distributing across near-infinite people. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com -- What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hur
I do agree with the fact that any program must have a good documentation. Without documentation, any work invested in developing any software is useless. If no one can understand in an easy way what