In this case, will installing BackupPC 3.1 overwrite the existing
/etc/backuppc.conf file? If not, then that will need some attention,
because the conf file from the 2.x days is slightly different.
-Rob
dan wrote:
> you dont even need to uninstall.
>
> apt-get install backuppc
> then download the install script for bpc3.1 and run it, it will just
> overwrite what it needs ant you will have a 3.1 install quite quickly.
>
> installing backuppc from apt first gets all the deps and the installer
> is then able to update the existing install rather that you providing
> all the info for the upgrade
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
> <nils AT lemonbit DOT nl <mailto:nils AT lemonbit DOT nl>> wrote:
>
> Rob Owens wrote:
>
> > Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
> >> Rob Owens wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Sam. I saw that you have had some trouble with your Debian /
> >>> BackupPC installation. I have BackupPC running on a few Debian
> >>> servers
> >>> right now. 1 is Debian Etch, and 2 are Debian Lenny.
> >>>
> >>> On Etch, I did this:
> >>> 1) apt-get install backuppc (this installs BackupPC 2.x and all
> >>> dependencies)
> >>> 2) apt-get remove backuppc (maybe use the --purge option to remove
> >>> config files to, but I can't remember if I did that)
> >>> 3) download BackupPC 3.0 and libfile-rsync-perl from the testing
> >>> repository, and install using "dpkg -i <packagename>"
> >>> 4) I think I had to correct some permissions that weren't correct,
> >>> namely I had to "chown -R backuppc.www-data /etc/backuppc" (and I
> >>> might
> >>> have had to do the same thing for /var/lib/backuppc -- I can't
> >>> remember)
> >>
> >> What are steps 1 and 2 good for? I'd do just step 3 if I wanted to
> >> install BackupPC 3 on Debian Etch.
> >>
> > Steps 1 and 2 get you all the dependencies installed. There are
> other
> > ways to do it, of course.
>
> Hm, doesn't apt have an equivalent of yum's 'yum localinstall'
> command? If you enable testing then you I believe you should just be
> able to apt-get install backuppc and get BackupPC 3, but you probably
> jump through these hoops to keep the rest of the OS on stable and only
> get BackupPC 3 from testing?
>
> Nils Breunese.
>
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