Hi Chris, When I saw your note, I first thought about just stopping the service like in Richards suggestion below. If you want to keep the system simi-active in case you need something from the old archive, I'm wondering if just setting the black-out period to 24/7 would work. -- ken
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 16:22 +0100, Chris Owen wrote: > Richard > > Thanks for this, I didn't think about doing it this way. Was hoping > there might be away within BackupPC to stop backups from running. But > this will do the trick. > > Many Thanks > > Chris > > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Chris Owen > > <chriso...@eigersecurities.com> wrote: > > > >> Hey. > >> > >> I have installed a new backuppc server and have tested the backups on > >> the new server and I am now happy to switch off the old server. The > >> server is running other services so I wanted to know if there is away to > >> stop the backups from running so that I can keep the old backups on this > >> server but carry on running the other services. > >> > > You didn't mention what variant of linux you are running, but on > > Fedora/Redhat types it would be something like: > > > > service BackupPC stop > > chkconfig BackupPC off > > > > Note that even though your archives will still be there, the web > > service will also be stopped so they will not be directly accessible. > > > > Richard > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
