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There's so much info in Slack Docs I've just become completely confused.
I'm trying to install rdiff-backup and the library librsync.
I've extracted them to /opt and changed the permissions with chmod +x
From Slack Docs:
Quote:
Install
The rdiff-backup project is hosted at http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/ but the easiest way to install it is from SlackBuilds.org
You must install rdiff-backup on both the client computer being backed up and the server to which it is sending backup files. This means you are preforming two installs of rdiff-backup.
The server to which you backup does not need to also be running Slackware, as long as rdiff-backup is available for it, it will work as an rdiff-backup server.
But when I try to do what it says herehttps://slackbuilds.org/howto/ I get an error message that there's no such file or directory, but it's right there!
And another issue - I can't even figure out how to clear the damn clipboard!
After you get used to doing this by hand, you can look into sbopkg to automate all this for you. Here is a good video tutorial on how to use sbopkg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akMZS2dcqPo
But I'm getting the same error as when I tried before:
Code:
./librsync.SlackBuild
tar (child): /tmp/librsync/librsync-0.9.7.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Any idea why?
Oops! just got to your last line - I was so excited I didn't see it. Sheesh!
Last edited by Captain Brillo; 06-08-2019 at 06:23 PM.
Reason: My bad
I downloaded the source files and out them in the new directories created for librsync and rdiff-backup.
Then I ran your commands again and everything worked fine.
I downloaded the source files and out them in the new directories created for librsync and rdiff-backup.
Then I ran your commands again and everything worked fine.
Thank you.
Yes, that was the important part I left out above lol. Sorry about that, glad you figured it out.
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