Re: installation on Ubuntu 18.04

For all of you Ubuntu users, you now have an afio package available in the repository, so no more issues with the tool creating backup stes, you'll alwyas have one.
This also applies to Debian users.

Next I'll work as well on star to provide the same service, as sometimes star does a better job than afio.

Bruno.

Bruno Cornec said on Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 03:16:20PM +0200:

>Here it's afternoon now ;-)
>Great, so you already have afio installed, then you don't need star (except if afio creates issues on its own).
>It may come from a former installation.
>So you should be able to perform the backup.
>
>Best regards,
>Bruno.
>
>
>Richard Taylor said on Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 09:03:57AM -0400:
>
>>Good Morning (or whatever it is where you are at) Bruno,
>>
>>Here is the results of which afio
>>
>>which afio
>>/bin/afio
>>
>>Doing 'which star' returns nothing.
>>
>>I have not yet had the chance to run the backup.  I am hoping to tonight
>>when the machine is not in use.  I also plan on running the compare to
>>verify the backup.  I will let you know  if and when the backup completes
>>and also the results of the compare.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Rich Taylor
>>
>>On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 7:04 AM Bruno Cornec <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>Hello Richard,
>>>
>>>I don't think it should lead to a working backup, if you don't have either
>>>afio or star installed on the system.
>>>It may come from a previous version of Debian where it was available BTW.
>>>
>>>What gives:
>>>which afio
>>>which star
>>>?
>>>
>>>and please attach the /var/log/mondoarchive.log if you encounter issues in
>>>the run.
>>>Bruno.
>>>
>>>Richard Taylor said on Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 07:27:43PM -0400:
>>>
>>>>Actually running "sudo apt --fix-broken install" fixed this issue.  It now
>>>>appears to be running.  I will have to wait to test creating a clone.
>>>>
>>>>On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 4:55 PM Richard Taylor <[email protected]>
>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Bruno,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am running into all kinds of dependency issues.  I have worked through
>>>>> most, but I am getting this one that I am having trouble correcting
>>>>>
>>>>> sudo apt-get install star
>>>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>>>> Building dependency tree
>>>>> Reading state information... Done
>>>>> Package star is not available, but is referred to by another package.
>>>>> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
>>>>> is only available from another source
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 1:37 PM Bruno Cornec <[email protected]>
>>>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello Frank,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In your case, you could try the beta of 3.3.0 by using the repo here:
>>>>>> ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/test/ubuntu/20.04/ 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And also adding the ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org//ubuntu/20.04/    repo for
>>>>>> some perl packages.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You may still miss some packages, I've not had time to test this so
>>>>>> please report back here your findings, and I'll generate what is
>>>missing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bruno.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Frank Ternest said on Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 04:10:16PM +0200:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> >I have the same problem with Ubuntu 20.04. I only found the
>>>sources.list
>>>>>> >for 16.04.
>>>>>> >Not sure if this will also work in 20.04
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >Best Regards,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >Frank Ternest
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 at 15:51, Richard Taylor <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >> I am trying to install the latest version of Mondo on my Ubuntu
>>>system.
>>>>>> >> Unfortunately, there is no mondorescue.sources.list file in the ftp
>>>>>> folder
>>>>>> >> for that version.  Therefore the instructions I found for
>>>installation
>>>>>> >> fail.  The folder also seems to be incomplete.
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> Would I be safe using the installation from Debian 10?  What about
>>>>>> using a
>>>>>> >> source list from an earlier ubuntu version and changing the version
>>>>>> >> reference to 18.04?  The fact that there seems to be some missing
>>>>>> files in
>>>>>> >> the 18.04 folder makes me think that this will fail, but it's worth
>>>>>> asking.
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> Thanks for your help
>>>>>> >> Rich
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