On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 23:19 +0700, hans...@gmail.com wrote: > Many people are so "religious" about open source that they interpret a > (IMO perfectly valid in certain circumstances) suggestion to use COTS > software as an insult to the recipient. Sometimes such a suggestion is > meant that way, e.g. "Maybe you should just stick with Windows" may be > intended to infer "what a wimp/idiot, isn't able/willing to learn > *nix".
You've probably identified why I assumed that. I didn't even consider his response in any other light. Please accept my apologies, Cesar. > > And, please, excuse my English, I'm from Spain. > > Your English is excellent! Agreed. Thanks for responding so clearly, Cesar. On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 10:38 -0600, Michael Hughes wrote: > This was going to be my first response as well. But I have to admit I > found myself in the same position as the OP. I read the BackupPC > documentation (or as much as I thought was necessary,) installed and > configured the system, and was perplexed that it didn't work. I've > learned a lot about SSH since then, but I found the documentation in > BackupPC assumed that the administrator has already configured the > method that it can talk to the clients with. That's a valid complaint. Coming from using Bacula for a year, I found BackupPC refreshing easy to configure and use. If not for the obtuse SSH-related error messages. Regards, Tyler -- "The map is not the territory." -- Alfred Korzybski ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ 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/
