Thanks to all for responding. So far, I've learned several things:
1. Fedora distributions are short lived.
2. Rsync is the preferred transport.
Well, I kind of learned something. I had already figured out that Fedora
kept people moving along down the version trail. I did not realize that
they quit supporting issues so quickly. I knew rsync was the preferred
transport method and originally chose that, but as reported in the original
post, I was advised by my 'harbor pilot' in the Fedora forum to start with
smb.
So far as the OS for my server, I have Fedora 9, Centos and Ubuntu. Once I
have learned enough about Linux in general, I will set them up and review
them before replacing what I currently am running (I multi-boot).
So, the only progress so far is that you recommend that I do what I had
already decided was my second option (using rsync) if fixing the current
problem did not occur.
On this path, my next step is to set up ssh-keys for BackupPC. Remember,
that I am a novice in Linux. I have instructions for creating the keys but
find a discrepancy between the instructions (written for Debian) and the
Fedora setup. When creating keys on the archive unit running BackupPC, the
instructions say to be logged in as user backuppc. Fedora 8 came with
BackupPC installed and almost setup to run with directories, file
permissions and a user (backuppc) in existence but set for no logon. Do I
instead work as root? -- ken
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From: dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 9:01 PM
To: General list for user discussion,questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working
Definitely go with rsync for backups. This is a better choice.
Also, fedora 8 is a perfectly fine OS but I would suggest using either
ubuntu 8.04 or centos5.2. Both are modern, stable distros tha tare easy to
maintain and manage and are free.
.
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