Re: afbackup: comments and problems.
Alexander Kushnirenko <kushnir@pccmu1.fnal.gov> writes:
> WHAT DOES NOT WORK:
> After reading documentation, man pages, mail archive I thought that
> the program I should run is "afbackup", it seemed natural as that's
> the name of the package after all. My idea was to run periodically
> following programs on server:
>
> afbackup -h linux_box_1 -X full_backup -k /etc/afbackup/cryptkey
> afbackup -h linux_box_2 -X full_backup -k /etc/afbackup/cryptkey
> afbackup -h linux_box_3 -X full_backup -k /etc/afbackup/cryptkey
> afbackup -h linux_box_4 -X full_backup -k /etc/afbackup/cryptkey
>
> Centralised process, no clashes, but afbackup = afclient = Does not
> work. Briefly it's a specail type of installation (remote client)
> of afbackup-client that is missing in slink. Please correct me if
> I'm wrong here.
You talk about the /usr/lib/afbackup/rexec directory? According to
this entry in the HOWTO... file:
...
This starts an incremental backup on the supplied host. Each program
on the remote host lying in the directory configured as
Program-Directory in the configuration file of the serverside
installation part of the remote host (default:
$BASEDIR/server/rexec) can be started, but no other. The entries may
be symlinks, but they must have the same filename like the programs,
they point to.
...
I would assume that these files should be part of afbackup (server
part). But there are bundled in the afbackup-client package. Do you
report this as a bug or should I?
> CRITICISM:
> Document that helped me a lot is called "PROGRAMS" in original
> afbackup distribution. It is missing in Debian distribution.
Fortunately, I used afbackup quite some time before the debian package
appeared. So I knew all its information before using the debian
package. I assume some the information are available as manual pages.
But I would like to see this file in the package too.
Torsten
BTW: Waiting for the current 3.1.1 to be packaged ;-)
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