Debian Lenny has BackupPC 3.0 in its repositories.
-Rob

N.Pussini wrote:
> Ok man! I'll follow your suggestion.
> 
> Just one thing: I've tried /apt-get install backuppc  /from ubuntu.
> I saw that version of backuppc is 2.0.2-7.
> 
> It's possible? Is somewhere a newer  "packaged" backuppc? Maybe for Debian?
> 
> Maybe you are talking about other backuppc package?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> 
> 
> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom ha scritto:
>> On 10/24 11:44 , N.Pussini wrote:
>>   
>>> I've installed a Ubuntu Server 6.06 and followed all the instructions in 
>>> order to install all the prerequisites (mod_perl, apache ecc ecc).
>>>     
>> I'm guessing you installed from the tarball rather than the package. 
>> Install the package, and it should install everything with all the correct
>> permissions, get the other packages you need, and may even give you some
>> examples to work from (the Debian package gives you an example localhost.pl
>> file that's very helpful the first time).
>>
>> Always install software from packages rather than tarballs.
>> - it makes it trivial to find out if you need to update anything
>> - it means you don't need a compiler on your system (a tool than an attacker
>>   can use against you)
>> - it makes it easy to roll back to an older version if need be
>> - it makes it easy to remove software you don't need anymore (which reduces
>>   the tools an attacker can use against you, and reduces upgrade workload)
>> - it makes it easy to find out what version of the software is installed
>> - with some package managers (RPM) it's easy to find out when the software
>>   was installed, so you can correlate that to something breaking
>> - you can find out who built the software, so you can go complain to them
>>   when their package breaks
>> - you save lots of time by not compiling everything on every host
>> - you have a consistent install because it's the same code everywhere and
>>   not compiled on each machine separately
>>
>>   
> 
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