On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Tim Evans <tkev...@tkevans.com> wrote:
> I have BackupPC-3.3.1-7.fc25.x86_64 installed on Fedora 25. Stopped
> using it a good while back when the Samba changes screwed things up.
> Could never get the patches to 3.x to work for me. My backup pool is
> now more than a year out of date.
>
> (I have been running an alternative backup mechanism (NetGear ReadyNAS
> built-in backups), with a separate destination, so the old pool isn't
> important.)
>
> I'd like to install version 4.x, but must've missed any step-by-steps
> that have been published. I've found the Hobbes repo, but there's
> nothing there in the way of docs.
The main thing is to merge config.pl. Your old one should not be
overwritten and the new one from the 4.x package should be renamed to
config.pl.rpmnew.
You can diff the two and merge what you need from the old one into the new
one. The main difference being (IIRC) that the rsync path and rsync
arguments being split into two different variables.
Something like:
# cd /etc/BackupPC
# mv config.pl config.pl.old
# mv config.pl.rpmnew config.pl
# diff -Nau config.pl.old config.pl > changes.diff
Then review changes.diff and merge what you need over to the new config.pl
It is a bit time consuming because the supplied default config.pl and the
changes made the first time you click save from the CGI interface create a
lot of false positives in the diff.
Thanks,
Richard
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