Jerry, On Tuesday 02 November 2004 07:32, Jerry Westrick wrote:
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If you got the diskspace to make backups, then take a look at Storebackup.. (on SuSE Cd's)...
IMHO... It's the best backup system around...
That's good to know, since I've yet to find a Linux backup "solution" I like, having been quite spoiled by Retrospect on the Mac and Windows. However, this software seems a little pushy. I installed it yesterday when your message came through but did not immediately start working on it. This morning, I had my first failed status report on overnight cron jobs. It came from an invalid invocation of storeBackup. (That, or a valid invocation of an unconfigured setup.) To wit: -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- ... SCRIPT: logrotate, OK. SCRIPT: storebackup exited with RETURNCODE = 255. SCRIPT: output (stdout && stderr) follows no source directory specified! This program copies trees to another location. ... -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- The installation RPM creates a template configuration file which is not acceptable to use to run the program but which is used by the cron script ("/etc/cron.daily/storebackup") simply by virtue of being where it is, in "/etc/storebackup.d/". The cron script does not even discriminate files in that directory based on some kind of name pattern. It just assumes every file there is a well-formed storeBackup configuration file that should be used to run a daily backup.
Jerry
Randall Schulz