On Saturday 10 December 2011 09:18:27 Thomas Nilsson wrote:
> I've inherited a BackupPC installation which hadn't made any backups for
> 504.3 days (gulp!) but have managed to set that right (I think).

Nice! That the reason why the former admin was made to leave it to you?

> It is on an Ubuntu 8.04 server and now running BackupPC 3.0.0. As the wiki
> is very clear about not mixing package and "by hand" upgrades, I was
> wondering if there is a way to determine if my installation has been
> performed using apt-get or by hand?

Use aptitude (or synaptic if you prefer gui) and see whether backuppc was 
installed by package management.

And then update that 8.04 to 10.04 to get new features, more security fixes and 
less trouble when 12.04 arrives...

Have fun,

Arnold

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