Hi Chris,

When I saw your note, I first thought about just stopping the service
like in Richards suggestion below.  If you want to keep the system
simi-active in case you need something from the old archive, I'm
wondering if just setting the black-out period to 24/7 would work.
-- ken



On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 16:22 +0100, Chris Owen wrote:
> 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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