On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 2:18 AM,  <hansbkk AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>>
>> But would probably be a very good idea.  What would be an even better idea
>> would be to grab a spare PC (or a virtual guest) and test it from a
>> completely clean installation.  And document the *heck* out of what you do:
>>  you *will* be doing it again (and again and again....).
>
>
> Well the whole thing is a test system, and I'm not that concerned with
> figuring out what went wrong vs moving forward, so I guess I'll just wipe
> and restart with a clean OS.

Keep in mind  that if you get a virtual machine working, you can just
keep the copy at the offsite location.  I have a Centos image on my
windows laptop under vmware player and can connect the disk with a
usb->sata adapter cable.

> Since I want to use the BackupPC 3.1 package (eventual production system
> will be on CentOS5), while I'm at it I'll use the Ubuntu version it's
> designed for, Lucid 10.04, rather than the latest Natty 11.04.

If you are going to use centos,  you might as well use centos in
testing, even if you have to do it under vmware.  I think the EPEL
package was recently updated to 3.2 and I would be able to give better
advice with rpm commands.
rpm -q --list backuppc # to see where all the files go
rpm -q --scripts   # view the install scripts
rpm -V backuppc   #  see what has changed since install
etc.   I'm sure debian/ubuntu has the equivalent or better, but I
don't know them.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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