On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:13 , Jerry Westrick
On Wednesday 03 November 2004 16:42, Randall R Schulz wrote:
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
Well it works over here... did you modify the file /etc/storebackup.d/storebackup.config ? there you need to define what should be back-up, to where and how many versions to keep...
Jerry
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Gentlemen: I've been looking around for backup programs for my SuSE 9.0 Pro. I understand that Bacula and star are good programs to use for backing up files. It would be interesting to hear other opinions. ---Jim --- Msg sent via DIT Online WebMail http://mail.ditol.com