On 10/20 02:27 , itismike wrote: > While the charm of OSS is that the code is easily accessible, I've found > that most of the documentation steps refer to editing curly bracket > objects, which is great for developers, but not-so-great for everyday > administration:
I and many other people do not find GUIs superior to editing config files for 'everyday administration'. :) The BackupPC config.pl file is generously commented and generally simple in its form (name = value tuples) and while it does take a bit of reading to understand; once you do understand it the ability to know what is actually set (as opposed to trusting a layer of indirection in a GUI) is useful. GUIs are good if you don't know what the options are; but quite often they're little help in understanding what you actually need to do. > Rsync/Rsyncd Configuration > $Conf{RsyncClientPath} = ''; > Path to rsync executable on the client > $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $host $rsyncPath > $argList+'; > Full command to run rsync on the client machine. The following > variables are substituted at run-time: > And the GUI actually has a drop-down list for choosing the type of backup: Not sure what you're getting at here, or what your original message looked like. Perhaps try posting in a block of plain text? > Is there another version of the docs somewhere that is updated to walk a new > user through the config based on options available in the GUI? No idea. The nice thing about config files is that it's really easy to doco them or suggest things to people since they're comparatively 'flat' and contextless. Just say "find <this> and replace it with <that>". GUIs require screenshots or lengthy descriptions; and they're much more prone to change and the doco going stale due to the change. > Second question: why are there separate choices for rsync and rsyncd? Is the > second option running the rsync demean on the client instead of the server? rsync can run over ssh and launch an rsync program on the other side; or it can connect to a running rsync server - in Unix parlance a 'daemon', hence 'rsyncd'. in general, use rsync whenever possible. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
