- allow PingCmd and Nmb commands to be empty strings, allowing these

[BackupPC.git] / doc-src / BackupPC.pod

diff --git a/doc-src/BackupPC.pod b/doc-src/BackupPC.pod
index 59af087..c87b31e 100644 (file)
--- a/doc-src/BackupPC.pod
+++ b/doc-src/BackupPC.pod
@@ -151,13 +151,6 @@ on increasingly better RAID systems.
 At other sites a secondary tape backup will be required. This tape
 backup can be done perhaps weekly from the BackupPC pool file system.
 
 At other sites a secondary tape backup will be required. This tape
 backup can be done perhaps weekly from the BackupPC pool file system.
 

-One comment: in the US in particular, permanent backups of things like
-email are becoming strongly discouraged by lawyers because of discovery
-prior to possible litigation.  Using BackupPC without tape backup allows
-recent file changes or losses to be restored, but without keeping a
-history more than a month or two old (although this doesn't avoid the
-problem of old emails languishing in user's email folders forever).
-

 =back
 
 =head2 Resources
 =back
 
 =head2 Resources


@@ -184,20 +177,25 @@ This page has links to the current releases of BackupPC.
 
 =item Mail lists
 
 
 =item Mail lists
 

-Two BackupPC mailing lists exist for announcements (backuppc-announce)
-and reporting information, asking questions, discussing development or
-any other topic relevant to BackupPC (backuppc-users).
+Three BackupPC mailing lists exist for announcements (backuppc-announce),
+developers (backuppc-devel), and a general user list for support, asking
+questions or any other topic relevant to BackupPC (backuppc-users).

 
 

-You are encouraged to subscribe to either the backuppc-announce
-or backuppc-users mail list on sourceforge.net at either:
+You can subscribe to these lists by visiting:

 
     http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-announce
     http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
 
     http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-announce
     http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users

+    http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-devel

 
 The backuppc-announce list is moderated and is used only for
 important announcements (eg: new versions).  It is low traffic.
 
 The backuppc-announce list is moderated and is used only for
 important announcements (eg: new versions).  It is low traffic.

-You only need to subscribe to one list: backuppc-users also
-receives any messages on backuppc-announce.
+You only need to subscribe to one of backuppc-announce and
+backuppc-users: backuppc-users also receives any messages on
+backuppc-announce.
+
+The backuppc-devel list is only for developers who are working on BackupPC.
+Do not post questions or support requests there.  But detailed technical
+discussions should happen on this list.

 
 To post a message to the backuppc-users list, send an email to
 
 
 To post a message to the backuppc-users list, send an email to
 


@@ -208,7 +206,7 @@ Do not send subscription requests to this address!
 =item Other Programs of Interest
 
 If you want to mirror linux or unix files or directories to a remote server
 =item Other Programs of Interest
 
 If you want to mirror linux or unix files or directories to a remote server

-you should consider rsync, L<http://rsync.samba.org>.  BackupPC uses
+you should consider rsync, L<http://rsync.samba.org>.  BackupPC now uses

 rsync as a transport mechanism; if you are already an rsync user you
 can think of BackupPC as adding efficient storage (compression and
 pooling) and a convenient user interface to rsync.
 rsync as a transport mechanism; if you are already an rsync user you
 can think of BackupPC as adding efficient storage (compression and
 pooling) and a convenient user interface to rsync.


@@ -216,13 +214,23 @@ pooling) and a convenient user interface to rsync.
 Unison is a utility that can do two-way, interactive, synchronization.
 See L<http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison>.
 
 Unison is a utility that can do two-way, interactive, synchronization.
 See L<http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison>.
 

-Two popular open source packages that do tape backup are
-Amanda (L<http://www.amanda.org>) and
-afbackup (L<http://sourceforge.net/projects/afbackup>).
+Three popular open source packages that do tape backup are
+Amanda (L<http://www.amanda.org>),
+afbackup (L<http://sourceforge.net/projects/afbackup>), and
+Bacula (L<http://www.bacula.org>).

 Amanda can also backup WinXX machines to tape using samba.
 These packages can be used as back ends to BackupPC to backup the
 BackupPC server data to tape.
 
 Amanda can also backup WinXX machines to tape using samba.
 These packages can be used as back ends to BackupPC to backup the
 BackupPC server data to tape.
 

+Various programs and scripts use rsync to provide hardlinked backups.
+See, for example, Mike Rubel's site (L<http://www.mikerubel.org>),
+J. W. Schultz's dirvish (L<http://www.pegasys.ws/dirvish>),
+and John Bowman's rlbackup (L<http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/rlbackup>).
+BackupPC provides many additional features, such as compressed storage,
+hardlinking any matching files (rather than just files with the same name),
+and storing special files without root priviliges.  But these other scripts
+provide simple and effective solutions and are worthy of consideration.
+

 =back
 
 =head2 Road map
 =back
 
 =head2 Road map