Does the EPEL and COPR installer for backuppc
recognize that backuppc has already been installed and
overwrite it? I don't mind overwriting. I just want to
know if the installer covers existing installs. I've
already installed the modified rsync, all the Perl
dependencies, etc. I've run the Perl install script as
well, following along with
Yes, it will work like any other upgrade / package
update, it's not a parallel installable package.
Got it. GOTHAM'S RECOMMENDATIONS HAD ME MAKE A NEW USER "BACKUPPC"
AND RUN APACHE IN IT, AND DO A LOT OF STUFF FROM WITHIN ROOT. Should
I delete the new user, change the Apache user back to default, and
as much as possible undo all of the steps he gave? Any harm in
leaving the Perl modules intact and the modified Rsync in the bin
folder? I wouldn't know how to uninstall a Perl module anyway off
the top of my head.
You should no longer need to modify rsync or anything so definitely remote that. The package will make sure the needed perl modules are installed. If you installed them via CPAN then you should probably attempt to uninstall them, if you just installed packages via yum then it doesn't matter.
Ordinarily I would wipe this Redhat machine and start from scratch
but I spent a whole day installing an old driver for my now-obsolete
RAID card. It's not that old a card, it was working fine in
Windows..... EOL for hardware comes much too soon :-(. and I'm
working on a script to send mail when the RAID controller has
problems. And in that case if I start from scratch I guess I would
switch to Debian. :-)
Yes, probably best to wipe anything you've done
manually. The readme in the package has basic instructions
on what you'll need to do after package install.
I'm not sure if you mentioned what version you are
running but the package should install a SysV init script
on EL 6 and the Systemd service file on EL 7.
I'm not running EL yet at all, not fully understanding your syntax
above :-)
Ok, the "Redhat" statement bit me again, it makes me think of RHEL since Fedora != Redhat. Fedora has been on systemd for some time so that is taken care of by the package.
Richard
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