Posted on 2025-01-08

OpenBSD AndThe Indie Archive

I installed OpenBSD yesterday on a very old box running a Celeron with 4GB ram. I found a page with good instructions for installing XFCE and that made the desktop a lot better.

https://www.birkey.co/2022-01-29-openbsd-7-xfce-desktop.html

I did get Indie Archive to run on OpenBSD but I am not recommending it because the version of cp that comes with OpenBSD does not support the -l option which enables links for rsnapshot. This was shown in the error message about cp -al.

I installed coreutils which has the gnu version of cp, gcp. After replacing cp with a renamed gcp Indie Archive ran fine.

I don't know enough about OpenBSD, cp, and gpc to recommend doing this. So I'm not recommending OpenBSD as a platform for Indie Archive.

I don't mind rewriting my scripts for a different OS. I don't want to have to change rsnapshot code or OS essentials.