Richard

Thanks for this, I didn't think about doing it this way. Was hoping 
there might be away within BackupPC to stop backups from running. But 
this will do the trick.

Many Thanks

Chris
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Chris Owen
> <chrisowen AT eigersecurities DOT com>  wrote:
>    
>> Hey.
>>
>> I have installed a new backuppc server and have tested the backups on
>> the new server and I am now happy to switch off the old server. The
>> server is running other services so I wanted to know if there is away to
>> stop the backups from running so that I can keep the old backups on this
>> server but carry on running the other services.
>>      
> You didn't mention what variant of linux you are running, but on
> Fedora/Redhat types it would be something like:
>
> service BackupPC stop
> chkconfig BackupPC off
>
> Note that even though your archives will still be there, the web
> service will also be stopped so they will not be directly accessible.
>
> Richard
>
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