More on Backuppc on the Linkstation

I found that the default setup is woefully short of swapspace. Fixed it by making a swapfile:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/disk1/swapfile bs=1024 count=524288
mkswap /mnt/disk1/swapfile
swapon /mnt/disk1/swapfile


It's humming along nicely now!

I reduced the number of simultaneous jobs earlier, but I think I can increase that again.

Backuppc on the Linkstation

A primary reason for purchasing the Linkstation was to be able to automatically backup the computers on the home network.

It turned out the version of BackupPC that gets installed with the Freelink Debian revision is ancient (2.1). I had to add the 'etch-backports' repository to the apt config file, then I could install the latest stable release (3.1.0).

Buffalo Linkstation with Freelink

Purchased the Linkstation Live v2, and installed Freelink. Made the mistaking of updating to the latest Buffalo firmware before installing Freelink - had to downgrade to the previous version - took many iterations, including use of the tftp recovery package.