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Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Basics

2011-03-07 12:02:03
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Basics
From: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:00:30 +0000
On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 23:19 +0700, hansbkk AT gmail DOT com wrote:
> Many people are so "religious" about open source that they interpret a
> (IMO perfectly valid in certain circumstances) suggestion to use COTS
> software as an insult to the recipient. Sometimes such a suggestion is
> meant that way, e.g. "Maybe you should just stick with Windows" may be
> intended to infer "what a wimp/idiot, isn't able/willing to learn
> *nix".

You've probably identified why I assumed that. I didn't even consider
his response in any other light. Please accept my apologies, Cesar.

> > And, please, excuse my English, I'm from Spain.
> 
> Your English is excellent!

Agreed. Thanks for responding so clearly, Cesar.

On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 10:38 -0600, Michael Hughes wrote:
> 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 and
> configured the system, and was perplexed that it didn't work. I've
> learned a lot about SSH since then, but I found the documentation in
> BackupPC assumed that the administrator has already configured the
> method that it can talk to the clients with.

That's a valid complaint. Coming from using Bacula for a year, I found
BackupPC refreshing easy to configure and use. If not for the obtuse
SSH-related error messages.

Regards,
Tyler

-- 
"The map is not the territory."
   -- Alfred Korzybski


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