On: Sat, 12 Sep 98 07:49 +0200 Johann Spies writes:
>
> I am trying to use afbackup on my pc which is not part of a network
> using the following command (resulting in an error):
>
> $ afclient -h localhost -X full_backup /dev/qft0
>
> Error: cannot get the port number of the backup service.
>
> How do I fix that?
Check your /etc/services file:
afbackup 2988/tcp # Afbackup system
afbackup 2988/udp # Afbackup system
> How do I set up afbackup on a single computer?
Just use "BackupHost: localhost" in your client.conf.
> According to the Package file's description it is easy. I do not
> find it in the documentation.
Look into /usr/doc/afbackup/CONFIG.gz and INTRO.gz.
Torsten
