Robert Katz wrote on 2017-05-13 11:33:57 -0300 [[BackupPC-users] Working on install of backuppc in fedora 26]:
> running on Fedora 26!!!! Congratulate me :-)
I'll congratulate you as soon as you realize that this list is not meant for
*anything* concerning distribution packages, package management questions,
or linux questions. This is the *BackupPC* *upstream* users mailing list,
meant for questions relating to the BackupPC software as distributed by
git or tarball. Or at least it used to be. I'm at the point of unsubscribing
due to the large amount of noise here lately. This is not about mistakenly
asking one question here instead of at the appropriate place, it's about
repeatedly raising issues that are not even about BackupPC.
I can agree that completely off-topic posts probably shouldn't be
allowed, however, I have found this list, over the years, to be quite
helpful. I was able to ask questions regarding not only BackupPC, but
also it's interaction with the OS, with client OSes, and the various
backup methods.
As an example, I am converting large
portions of my network from Linux to BSD. I have a FreeNAS and was
considering whether it would be better to slice off an iscsi LUN and
make it available to my backup server, or run it directly in a jail on
the NAS. I appreciate those users who may have FreeBSD experience, and
think that they may have good suggestions. In fact, I remember years
ago, that there was a question about possible interactions between ZFS
(the primary filesystem of some of the BSDs) and BackupPC.
Whoever might be responsible, please kindly consider creating a backuppc-users
list at Fedora, Redhat or whereever, and announcing creation of the list here,
so whoever is interested can subscribe there, and we can point others toward
it when appropriate. Thank you.
Personally, I think this is way too many mailing lists to keep
track of. You would have to subscribe to a backuppc list for every
distro you run, plus the main one? And then what about the errors that
could creep in having all of these different sources of truth? I think
having the one list with a varied group of people on various distros
works out fairly well. True off-topic? Sure I complain about that
too...But I haven't seen many truly off-topic posts, and I certainly
don't think that posting about distro X or os Y and it's interaction
with backuppc is too far afoul of the main topic of the list.
Just my 2 pfenning,
Regards,
--b
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