Author: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:50:47 +0000
That's where BackupPC differs from nearly all other centralised backup systems. They all have custom local agents (see bacula-fd for example) whose configuration is covered by the backup software doc
Of course it "should" be! Every child "should" have enough to eat and a good education too, but few people live in an environment where they'd have the cheek to demand it as if it's an inherent *righ
Author: OldManRiver <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:29:05 -0700
Les, I'm not about to read source, as have no time for that. If this is not intuitive or the docs can not explain it, then I need another tool as I'm rushed to get this done yesterday. Thanks! OMR +-
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:54:47 -0500
Good luck with that. Ssh, Rsync, tar, and smbclient are the 'other tools', and once you understand what they do, backuppc is fairly intuitive and it's automation and web interface are much easier to
And? Obi-Wan: This isn't the backup solution you're looking for. Stormtrooper: This isn't the backup solution we're looking for. Obi-Wan: He can go about his business. Stormtrooper: You can go about
Author: "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:05:42 -0500
I can't be bothered to learn or do things, either! Why doesn't somebody just make free software that does whatever I want? -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determinin
I'm not claiming I can explain the solution to his problem but this is a good example of why microsoft is so successful. MS has MVP's (most valuable professional's) (and they aren't necessarily on ms
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:22:01 -0500
But it already does - you just have to tell it what you want. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit fo
Author: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:24:08 +0000
The others have funnier responses, no doubt. If you have no time to implement a backup solution correctly, you will not do it correctly. Worse, when it comes time that you NEED it (IE, someone delete
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:50:08 -0500
And I always thought it was the free lunch that the commercial sales droids would provide while promoting their expensive product that explained their popularity over better free versions. Was there
1. That may be part of it. 2. In my experience I have found that quite a few proprietary products work better than the open source equivalent. Don't get me wrong... I love open source and use quite a
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:49:10 -0500
When 2 things have compatibility problems, it doesn't seem fair to blame just one of them, especially the one that is closed source, doesn't follow any standards, and almost certainly introduces undo
I don't blame the open source version at all. Certainly the problems are likely caused by not following standards. But when you are forced to deal with banks who require IE to access their interface,
Author: Timothy Murphy <gayleard AT eircom DOT net>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:51:57 +0000
That's not my experience at all. I often find it very hard to get help with simple Windows problems, and don't know of any Windows forums (fori?) similar to this one, or to the other Linux mailing li
Author: Timothy Murphy <gayleard AT eircom DOT net>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:10:15 +0000
Absolutely. Anyone who says you should read the source to find out how to use a program is talking nonsense. The only time this could possibly make sense is if the program is not running properly. My
There are loads of ms forums out there. Many of them are very professional. I've asked four questions here and didn't receive a response on a single one. But that won't make me go away. :) Memtest86
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Joe Konecny <jkonecny AT rmtohio DOT com> wrote: A very helpful classic "howto": http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html also explains why open-source gee
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:46:49 -0400
hansbkk AT gmail DOT com wrote at about 16:00:53 +0700 on Friday, March 18, 2011: Couldn't agree more! BackupPC could definitely use more contributors especially to documentation. We are blessed that
Author: Timothy Murphy <gayleard AT eircom DOT net>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:49:05 +0000
The laptop is a Dell Latitude D610. There is a Diagnostic program one can enter by pressing F12 at boot-time. The memory part of this ran for over 30 minutes, and said the memory module was fine. I r
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard AT eircom DOT net> wrote: Every MS Windows OS I've used (since 3.0x in the 8086 days) has shipped with a free backup program. Many were basic