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BackupPC seems to be a cool application. Except for the fact that it is not easy to start working with in the first place. I downloaded BackupPC-2.0.0.tar.gz and installed it into the directory /usr/local/backuppc. Then I executed the config.pl and answered all I could. The place where I want to backup my stuff is my second hard drive /dev/hdb5 which is formatted as reiserfs and mounted at /mnt/hdb. After the config script there was a new directory in /mnt/hdb: backuppc, which contained 6 other directories: conf, cpool, log, pc, pool and trash.

If you want to execute a command with root privileges, you normally use the command "sudo". But of course you can execute a command also as any other user. E.g. I need to execute some script for my backup as user "backuppc". then I just type:

sudo -u backuppc /usr/local/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg status info

Instead of the username (backuppc) one can also use the user id (uid).

The new window that fails to be displayed, contains (when run natievly under W2K) the following text (and radio buttons for the four different file types):

Select File Type
Contruct (Ctrl-C)
Illustration (Ctrl-I)
List (Ctrl-L)
Gel (Ctrl-G)
New File Name
OK
Cancel

The text associated with the different radio buttons appears first in the debug file in the following lines (as determined by the command "grep -n "List" all_output > List_output", etc):