Ah, but Christian, you have hit the perfect paradox of Open Source Software! When you find a problem, you have the opportunity to lend a hand in fixing it. Yep, it’s annoying, but hopefully rare. This is one of the benefits of Linux, that you have the opportunity and tools available to fix things yourself.
Yes, you are correct that wrong information should and must be corrected. However, because there’s not a monetary exchange, sometimes there is a time exchange. When you begin to understand, prepare for, and embrace this dynamic, then these frustrations are not nearly as foreign or jarring. Sometimes the frustration will never go away. However, demanding that somebody else do something so that you can have something for free is not going to put those in charge in a great mood to help you. I get it, and have been there. I’m still there many times. However, changing the tone to more of a helper stance can go a long way. Thanks, Greg Harris On Mar 1, 2022, at 2:45 PM, Christian Möller <dcmoel...@gmx.de<mailto:dcmoel...@gmx.de>> wrote: 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. _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ -- Signature *Johan Ehnberg* Founder, CEO Molnix Oy jo...@molnix.com +358 50 320 96 88 molnix.com <https://molnix.com> /The contents of this e-mail and its attachments are for the use of the intended recipient only, and are confidential and may contain legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient or have otherwise received the e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to this e-mail immediately and then delete it immediately from your system. Any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of this communication without prior and explicit permission of the sender is strictly prohibited./ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net> List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
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