BackupPC community,
I'm pleased to announce that BackupPC 4.0.0alpha3 has been released on SourceForge at:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/backuppc/files/backuppc-beta/4.0.0alpha3/

BackupPC 4.0.0alpha3 has a couple of new features (including rrdtool pool graphs) and some bug fixes.  A bug related to SMB backups was fixed in BackupPC-XS-0.30.
Each of the three packages in the release has been updated.  You should upgrade all three packages:

• BackupPC-4.0.0alpha3.tar.gz: the usual BackupPC release tar ball.
  
• BackupPC-XS-0.30.tar.gz: a perl XS module with C code that replaces several BackupPC perl libraries for improved performance.
  
• rsync-bpc-3.0.9.3.tar.gz: a modified rsync that runs on the server that has a shim layer that interfaces directly to the BackupPC file system.

I've attached some short release notes and the build/install steps for each package.
This release is getting close to beta0. The only missing feature is FTP xfer support.
I'd be interested in feedback.  
Craig
#------------------------------------------------------------------------# Version 4.0.0alpha3, 1 Dec 2013#------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Added rrdtool support, based on code from Alexander Moisseev.
* Fixed BackupPC_attribPrint to auto-detect the compression status of the  attrib file.  Reported by Chris Adamson.
* Fixed bin/BackupPC_tarExtract for case where no subdirectories are in  the archive, which caused the top-level attrib file to not be written.  Reported by Alexander Moisseev.
* Added recovery/cleanup to bin/BackupPC_dump in case last V4 backup is  not filled.
* Tweaked RmTreeQuietInner() in lib/BackupPC/DirOps.pm to improve error  messages, and continue on error.
* When FHS is enabled, moved BackupPC.pid and BackupPC.sock files to  /var/run/BackupPC (or $Conf{RunDir}), and the documentation to  $InstallDir/share/doc/BackupPC.
#------------------------------------------------------------------------# Installation instructions: download and install all three tar balls.#------------------------------------------------------------------------
BackupPC-XS-0.30.tar.gz:
  tar zxvf BackupPC-XS-0.30.tar.gz  cd BackupPC-XS-0.30  perl Makefile.PL  make  make test  make install
rsync-bpc-3.0.9.3.tar.gz:
  tar zxvf rsync-bpc-3.0.9.3.tar.gz  cd rsync-bpc-3.0.9.3  ./configure.sh  make  make install
BackupPC-4.0.0alpha3.tar.gz:
  tar zxvf BackupPC-4.0.0alpha3.tar.gz  cd BackupPC-4.0.0alpha3  ./configure.pl
The last step for each will need to be run as a privileged user.
If you want to install rsync_bpc in /usr/local/bin (default might be /usr/bin), then you should add the --prefix option to configure.sh:
  ./configure.sh --prefix=/usr/local

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