Thank you for your patience! This is my aim: To set up backuppc to make daily incremental backups of my home folder in Ubuntu to an external USB drive, and a weekly full backup. This should occur each day after I finish work, perhaps at 7 pm, and I would like backuppc to start automatically when I start the computer and to send me a daily e-mail indicating the status of the backup after it has completed.
These are my supplementary, less important aims: To have these backups directed to two separate USB drives (yes, I have two) for safety, and to also backup the essential Ubuntu configuration files so that I could restore settings on another machine in case of catastrophe (for this I need to know which directories to back up but I haven't figured this out yet!). OK, I install backuppc with synaptic. It asks me which of four apache servers I would like to configure automatically. I am unsure, so I tick all four. It provides me with the following message: BackupPC can be managed through its web interface: http://martin-laptop/backuppc/ and I have a username (backuppc) and a password. So now I can see the web page for managing the backup. (I note that I don't really understand the difference between a server - which is what I think I am looking at with the web page - and a host, which I think is martin-laptop). Through the web page I find the Documentation file, and note that I need to specify what to back up and where. I therefore make the following changes to config.pl using sudo gedit: $Conf{TopDir} = '/media/LACIE/backuppc'; $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = '/home/Martin'; I don't really understand the difference between smb, rsync, tar etc but I know that I have tar on Ubuntu and therefore I set $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar'; Obviously I need to know how to start backuppc and to have backuppc start automatically on boot. This is where I become unstuck. The documentation states 'The installation contains an init.d backuppc script..' but I don't know where it is. I also read 'BackupPC should be ready to start. If you installed the init.d script, then you should be able to run BackupPC with: /etc/init.d/backuppc start I wonder does this mean that, if I can find the init.d script, I will still need to run this every time I start the computer, or is there a way to run this automatically? I think I can understand how to do the daily scheduling, and I have supplementary queries such as how to make the first full backup, but I think I need to get backuppc started first, obviously. I hope this makes sense, and apologies for my ignorance - I'm sure that with a few pointers I can be on my way... Martin On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:55 -0500, David Nalley wrote: > On Thursday 29 November 2007 11:45:04 Martin Fisher wrote: > > Dear All > > > > After trying various possibilities I have decided that backuppc is what > > I would like to use to backup my pc on a daily and weekly basis. I > > installed backuppc on Ubuntu 7.10 and am trying to get started. I > > want to use backuppc quite simply - to backup from my computer to an > > external hard drive. I follow the documentation in general terms but it > > makes several assumptions about my level of knowledge that are > > significant hurdles for me. > > > > Could anybody point me to a step-by-step guide that could get me > > started? > > > > With thanks, Martin > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper > > from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going > > mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. > > http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 > > _______________________________________________ > > BackupPC-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > > Hi Martin, > > While a step-by-step document may exist, none is coming to mind at the > moment. > How about telling us the portions that you don't understand, perhaps we can > supplement or even improve the documentation there. > > David Nalley > ons http://www.fauna-flora.org/membership.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
