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Title: Need paid Affa support
Post by: eamedia on December 27, 2007, 08:51:26 PM

I need to hire someone to install Affa on a box and use it for remote backup of another sme box.

Thanks,

Grant
grant@eawireless.net

Title: Re: Need paid Affa support
Post by: raem on December 28, 2007, 03:40:37 AM

Grant

The Howto is OK if you follow it and it should get you up and running.
http://wiki.contribs.org/Affa

Did you try, did you have any problems ?

Title: Re: Need paid Affa support
Post by: eamedia on December 28, 2007, 04:46:22 AM

Yes I did.  Got some errors while configuring the dag repository.  Is is possible the default location of some of the folders has changed since the How-To was made?

Thanks,
Grant

Title: Re: Need paid Affa support
Post by: raem on December 28, 2007, 05:06:42 AM

Grant

It's a long command to enter to setup the repository, and a mistake could have easily been made.
Use your up cursor key to check the history of what you actually typed and correct and redo it if necessary.
It worked OK for me recently, as per the Howto.
Check carefully.

You can manually download the files from here including the dependency
perl-Filesys-DiskFree-0.06-1.2.el4.rf.noarch.rpm
and the actual affa rpm
smeserver-affa-0.8.0-0.noarch.rpm
http://smemirror.fullnet.co.uk/contribs/michaelw/sme7/affa/

Copy to an empty folder on sme and do
yum localinstall *.rpm


Edit:
Actually the dag repository does appear to have changed to this
http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/

I have updated the Howto

Title: Re: Need paid Affa support
Post by: cactus on December 28, 2007, 01:33:54 PM

Quote from: RayMitchell on December 28, 2007, 05:06:42 AM

Edit:
Actually the dag repository does appear to have changed to this
http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/

The url of the repository is fine, repositories always point to the root folder just above the repodata folder, like it does, the RPMS are (most off the time) in other folder(s).

Quote from: RayMitchell on December 28, 2007, 05:06:42 AM

I have updated the Howto

Since I can access the dag repository with the current parameters in the wiki without problems I have reverted your change.

My advice is to use putty to access your server shell and copy-paste the configuration instruction in order to prevent typos. Also make sure that you regenerate the configuration file:

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expand-template /etc/yum.conf

Title: Re: Need paid Affa support
Post by: Reinhold on December 28, 2007, 10:58:48 PM

Quote from: eamedia on December 27, 2007, 08:51:26 PM

I need to hire someone to install Affa on a box and use it for remote backup of another sme box.
Grant

Actually Michael Weinberger (aka affa author) does run a commercial Linux outfit of the name of "neddix"
Contact data is available here (http://www.neddix.de/)

...he may however well be on christmas/new year vacation ;)
in addition (in case you decide to call him) his timebase is CET (http://wwp.centraleuropeantime.eu/)


Regards
Reinhold

Title: Re: Need paid Affa support
Post by: raem on December 29, 2007, 04:59:42 AM

cactus

OK that's fine, my misunderstanding.

Title: Re: Need paid Affa support
Post by: raem on December 29, 2007, 05:00:56 AM

eamedia

Check your dag repo entry with:

db yum_repositories show dag

Which should give you:

dag=repository
    BaseURL=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/$basearch/dag
    EnableGroups=no
    Exclude=freetype,htop,iptraf,rsync,syslinux
    GPGCheck=yes
    GPGKey=http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
    Name=Dag - EL4
    Visible=no
    status=disabled