2009-07-03

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).

2 comments:

vendu.ch said...

Hi,

I have exactly the same idea, but with the 3.2.0beta0 of BackupPC and the last firmware 1.07 from Buffalo.

All seams to work well exept the authentication, I can't manage to change the settings of apache in order to ask credencials.

How did you manage that?
rgds
Javier

Philip said...

The Debian package of BackupPC took care of all that for me. I'll look through the config files for the settings if you still need help...