Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
> Rob Owens wrote:
> 
>> Hi Sam.  I saw that you have had some trouble with your Debian /
>> BackupPC installation.  I have BackupPC running on a few Debian  
>> servers
>> right now.  1 is Debian Etch, and 2 are Debian Lenny.
>>
>> On Etch, I did this:
>> 1) apt-get install backuppc (this installs BackupPC 2.x and all
>> dependencies)
>> 2) apt-get remove backuppc (maybe use the --purge option to remove
>> config files to, but I can't remember if I did that)
>> 3) download BackupPC 3.0 and libfile-rsync-perl from the testing
>> repository, and install using "dpkg -i <packagename>"
>> 4) I think I had to correct some permissions that weren't correct,
>> namely I had to "chown -R backuppc.www-data /etc/backuppc" (and I  
>> might
>> have had to do the same thing for /var/lib/backuppc -- I can't  
>> remember)
> 
> What are steps 1 and 2 good for? I'd do just step 3 if I wanted to  
> install BackupPC 3 on Debian Etch.
> 
Steps 1 and 2 get you all the dependencies installed.  There are other 
ways to do it, of course.

-Rob
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