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Re: Af's handling of attachments



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


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