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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Corrected".

The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.


Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question



Version Location Description Submitted By Corrected
Printed Page 4
End of the paragraph titled "Schadenfreude"

2 letters are swaped in the word "chpater"

"later in this chpater" Should be
"later in this chapter"

Anonymous  May 2009
Printed Page 29
16th word on the 5th line of the second paragraph.

"If he dose that, ntbackup" should be changed to "if he does that, ntbackup"

Joel Franusic  May 2009
Printed Page 105
last line of last paragraph

"value if usually 20 ..." should read
"value is usually 20 ..."

Anonymous  May 2009
Printed Page 154
Installing BackupPC

The download website is incorrect and should be changed from "http://backuppc.sourceforce.net/" to
"http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/".

Anonymous  May 2009
Printed Page 307
Profile section, first paragraph

A profile file specifies the filesystems to be backed up, the target they
are backed up to, and the install method used during recovery

Should say

A profile file specifies the filesystems to be created, the disks they are
created on, and the install method used during the recovery.

Anonymous  May 2009


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