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

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