> I'm assuming this became depreciated in some recent update to Perl?

Yes (see email on this list of 18.12.2011). Attaching the patch

BackupPC-3.2.1-CVE-2011-170886.diff
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Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning
Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing 
also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service.
http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/

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