Thanks Johan for your reply and time.
Hello, BackupPC community,
sorry, to me this sounds like the following:
There is BackupPC software with documentation how to install it from
scratch ... but this documentation is wrong or at least misleading!
One of the benefits of using Linux-based machines is the ease to
install/upgrade software. I don't know who is responsible for
preparation of BackupPC's Debian package, but in essense it seems to be
useless (at least for initial installation)!
So please
- wipe out this chapter from documentation,
- fix DEB package.
Fiddling around with scripts is not acceptable to me! I want to apply
BackupPC for backing up my computers, not to train my ability typing
commands.
Christian
Am 23.02.22 um 14:50 schrieb Johan Ehnberg:
Hello Christian,
If you prefer not to install manually, the BackupPC Wiki has an
installer script that works on Debian-based distributions:
https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki/Installing-BackupPC-4-from-tarball-or-git-on-Ubuntu
The script source can also be of use for you to identify where you got
stuck when installing manually.
Another option is to build your own packages or download premade ones:
https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki/Build-Your-Own-Packages
Best regards,
Johan Ehnberg
On 23/02/2022 13.39, Christian Möller wrote:
Hello,
I've tried to install BackupPC v4 following your documentation at
https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/BackupPC.html
on a Debian 11 machine.
Starting with "Step 1"
https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/BackupPC.html#Step-1:-Getting-BackupPC
everything works fine, both packages "backuppc" and "rsync-bpc" get
installed smoothly (as far as I can tell).
So according to the recommendation, I skip to Step 3 ... which gets me
lost in transition, because:
https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/BackupPC.html#Step-3:-Setting-up-config.pl
states
"After running configure.pl, browse through the config file,
__CONFDIR__/config.pl [...]"
Well, which "configure.pl" to ran (and when)? What is "__CONFDIR__"? The
same as with v3, so "/etc/backuppc"? I recognized that this folder is
created freshly during installation (be aware of the file's timestamps),
but contains NO "config.pl" file:
$ ls -al /etc/backuppc
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 backuppc www-data 4096 Feb 23 11:42 .
drwxr-xr-x 130 root root 12288 Feb 23 11:57 ..
-rw-r----- 1 backuppc www-data 47 Feb 23 11:42 htpasswd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 23 11:42 pc -> /etc/backuppc
So my attempt stops at this point unfinished.
Any help appreciated. Thanks.
Christian
PS: A little bit of background info: I'm using BackupPC v3 for many
years now. Prior to my attempt to install v4, I've uninstalled v3 and
moved away the "old" folder /etc/backuppc by renaming it.
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