BackupPC 4.0.0alpha2 has a couple of new features and some bug fixes:
- support for an SCGI interface (which allows Apache to run as any user, with requests handled by BackupPC_Admin_SCGI, which is run by the BackupPC server).
- parallelizing BackupPC_refCountUpdate, which is run each night by BackupPC_nightly.
If you are using alpha0 or alpha1, I recommend you upgrade.
Each of the three packages in the release has been updated. You should upgrade all three packages:
- BackupPC-4.0.0alpha2.tar.gz: the usual BackupPC release tar ball.
- BackupPC-XS-0.20.tar.gz: a perl XS module with C code that replaces several BackupPC perl libraries for improved performance.
- rsync-bpc-3.0.9.2.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 notes on 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
BackupPC-XS-0.20.tar.gz:
tar zxvf BackupPC-XS-0.20.tar.gz
cd BackupPC-XS-0.20
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
rsync-bpc-3.0.9.2.tar.gz:
tar zxvf rsync-bpc-3.0.9.2.tar.gz
cd rsync-bpc-3.0.9.2
./configure.sh
make
make install
BackupPC-4.0.0alpha2.tar.gz:
tar zxvf BackupPC-4.0.0alpha2.tar.gz
cd BackupPC-4.0.0alpha2
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