On Tue, 2021-01-05 at 12:28 -0500, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > Sorin Srbu wrote at about 16:35:16 +0100 on Tuesday, January 5, 2021: > > On Tue, 2021-01-05 at 09:13 -0600, Robert E. Wooden wrote: > > > On 1/5/2021 9:05 AM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > > > > I don't have a BPA, but I have compiled my own bpc 4.x for Ubuntu > > > > 18.04 - with code from June 2020. > > > > I can send you the packages if you want... > > > > Sorin Srbu wrote at about 15:50:05 +0100 on Tuesday, January 5, 2021: > > > > > Hello all! > > > > > > > > > > I've been away from BPC a few years because of changing jobs where > there > > > > > already were commercial backup systems in place and thus no need > for > > > > > BackupPC. However, along the road I also picked up a slew of new > > > > > technologies and am now running a three-node Proxmox-cluster at > home for lab > > > > > stuff as well as personal advancement. All these physical and > virtual > > > > > servers need to be backed up and here I am back with BackupPC. :-) > > > > > > I was searching for this the other day (because CentOS 8 goes EOL > > > 12-31-2021) and found there are *.deb packages somewhere on the wiki > > > pages. Might be the packages being discussed here, if so, sorry for > > > redundancy. > > > > Found them on > > https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki/Build-Your-Own-Packages. > > > > So this guy Raoul Bhatia is known on this list and in BackupPC dev circles? > > > > And yes, I've picked up some paranoia too during my time away from BPC, and > > tend use official stable releases. :-) > > > > I started with Raoul's packages for 4.0.x but they weren't being > frequently updated. I downloaded them and examined the package code - > all looked legit. > > So, I used them as the basis for creating my own version with more > updated code.
Gotcha', thanks. Will look into rolling my own upgrade eventually it seems. I think Debian may use a newer stable release of BPC. Maybe I can find something there. Till now, I've focused on Ubuntu packages only. -- Kind regards, Sorin Srbu Find my OpenPGP public key here: https://www.srbu.se/nextcloud/index.php/s/FPFgH5ifTiGwdtt
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