[K12OSN] Painless backuppc demo setup

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Mon Oct 31 05:48:40 UTC 2005


If anyone has been looking for a simple way to look at a
working backuppc system, it just got easier.  You can
download the free VMware player from http://www.vmware.com
and the 'Browser Appliance' virtual machine to use with
it.  You can run this with either a Windows or Linux box
as the host, but the virtual machine turns out to be a
Unbuntu Linux installation.  Since that is debian based
it has access to all the same additional packages and
you can open a root terminal window (password 'vmware')
and 'apt-get update ; apt-get install backuppc' and after
a while you'll have everything you need installed.  I'm
not sure how big the virtual disk can grow so this probably
isn't suitable for production use, but its a non-destructive
way to try things out.  Note that the debian installation
relocates some things compared to the standard documentation,
though.

This applies to anything else you could do under Ubuntu
as well - if you are just curios about the distribution
in general this is a quick way to check it out.  Go to
System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manager and
pick what else you want installed.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com





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