--On Tuesday, June 02, 2020 4:21 PM -0500 Richard Shaw
<hobbes1...@gmail.com> wrote:
The decision to not update EL 7 was intentional as there were some
non-backward compatible changes that necessitate manual involvement. I
didn't want to auto update the 10s of thousands of systems and deal will
the fall out. I do however provide 4.X for EL 6 & 7 via my COPR:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/hobbes1069/BackupPC/
The EL7 repo file has nearly 50,000 downloads.
I'm a happy user of the COPR package. I've got it deployed on both my
office and home CentOS 7 servers where it backs up about a dozen Windows 10
and 7 PCs over rsyncd.
I use rsyncd to make the clients read-only, a safety measure to keep
potentially hostile intruders from attacking them that way. Restores must
be done using zip files, and I've done that a few times for users who
accidentally deleted or corrupted a file.
Rather than update from v3, I bought a new external backup drive and just
started fresh with v4, migrating over settings manually. The same thing I
do when doing a major OS upgrade, buying a new server.
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