Author: Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu AT orgfarm.uu DOT se>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 11:24:11 +0000
Hi all, I installed a new BPC-server yesterday and noticed on http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/, that the version 4 is still alpha and has been so since 2013. Might I inquire on how the work is progre
Author: Mauro Condarelli <mc5686 AT mclink DOT it>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 09:30:10 +0200
Sad news. My personal opinion is the Project is effectively dead because none (interested) has write access to the official repositories. There are several clones floating around (several on github,
Author: Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu AT orgfarm.uu DOT se>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 07:34:11 +0000
semi can proved has That is indeed sad. 8-/ I hope it's not off-topic on this particular list, but what alternatives do we have, that are as easy to install and maintain as BPC? -- //Sorin Attachmen
Author: Michael Schumacher <michael.schumacher AT pamas DOT de>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 11:03:35 +0200
Hi Sorin, why would you need an alternative? BackupPC is a mature product. I do not miss any features. Just use it. In fact, I appreciate the fact that it is not evolving to a feature monster over ti
Author: Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu AT orgfarm.uu DOT se>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 09:53:27 +0000
alternatives do Hi there! In retrospect I realise I should have written something about that in my previous post. 8-) I any case, I have no problem with using old software. Just because BPC isn't ap
Author: Paolo Basenghi <paolo.basenghi AT fcr.re DOT it>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 12:44:27 +0200
Hi Michael! When it will become too mature, it will fall down! The World outside IS evolving! Today BPC is a great piece of software and I use it and I like it, but in a few year without development
Author: Michael Schumacher <michael.schumacher AT pamas DOT de>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:15:32 +0200
Hi Sorin, Some weeks ago, I installed BackupPC on a Banana Pi based on a Centos7 OS environment. The support for that ARM-platform is still very basic, but even if the EPEL-repo is not available, I m
Author: Bob of Donelson Trophy <bob AT donelsontrophy DOT net>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 06:45:53 -0500
I could be completely wrong but, I have v4.0alpha and v3.31(?) running on two different machines and both are just doing their job. Backing up clients at their locations. Backuppc (IMO) has always be
Author: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome AT real-time DOT com>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 08:04:59 -0400
That may be acceptable if you're a programmer who knows the ins and outs of CPAN, and is willing to keep track of software installed from source. However, those of us who administrate dozens or hundr
Author: Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu AT orgfarm.uu DOT se>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:33:55 +0000
e.g. I suppose. 8-) I'm willing too, to put down some work to make e.g. BPC work on a "modern" platform, but not too much. Time is money... -- //Sorin Attachment: smime.p7s Description: S/MIME crypt
Author: Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu AT orgfarm.uu DOT se>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:41:35 +0000
of on all Good one Carl. I was kinda' going towards that conclusion myself. If I can't figure out a piece of software in about two hours it's out. Being the "it-department" over here puts stress on
Author: "Moorcroft, Mark (ARC-TS)[Analytical Mechanics Associates, INC.]" <mark.moorcroft AT nasa DOT gov>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 18:12:24 +0000
Personally, I have only one fundamental issue with BackuPC 3.x, that we rely upon to back up all of our linux clients (including a 3000 core cluster). The problem is that it replaces modern rsync wit
Author: Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu AT orgfarm.uu DOT se>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 05:47:28 +0000
Doesn't BPC use whatever rsync version is available on the BPC-server? -- //Sorin Attachment: smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- Mobile security can be enabling, not merely res
I'm not a perl guy, but does anyone know how embedded the perl rsync is? Could it be replaced with the system rsync? Gerald -- Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who b
No, at least by default, it uses the perl module File::RsyncP. There is a significant advantage to this. The server can look in the pool for the file, and avoid transferring it if it's already got th
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 09:16:47 -0500
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:47 AM, Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu AT orgfarm.uu DOT se> wrote: v3 uses its own perl implementation to be able to compare to the compressed archived copy.. v4 uses the server's
The docs for v4 say: A modified rsync 3.0.9, called rsync_bpc, is used on the server side, with a C code layer that emulates all the file-system OS calls to be compatible with the BackupPC store. Th
Author: Juergen Harms <juergen.harms AT unige DOT ch>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 11:49:58 +0200
Here is a fix that has become necessary with the upgrade of the oncoming Mageia-6 release to perl 5.22. - opening an existing backup for consultation/restore now fails with: (see https://bugs.mageia.
Author: Mauro Condarelli <mc5686 AT mclink DOT it>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 15:04:30 +0200
Il 13/05/2016 11:49, Juergen Harms ha scritto: If there's no safe haven the herald running with the flag will, sooner or later, drown in troubled waters. I do insist. It is imperative to have a centr
Author: Alexander Moisseev <moiseev AT mezonplus DOT ru>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 16:41:19 +0300
Juergen, thanks for your reminder! I forgot to patch FreeBSD port. Actually the deprecated defined(@Backups) was already fixed in 3.3.1 and 4.0.0alpha3 more than year ago. There are records in change