Greetings, > Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM > From: "G.W. Haywood" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] installing backuppc-xs locally > > Hi there, > > Re: [BackupPC-users] installing backuppc-xs locally > > On Sat, 15 Nov 2025, daggs via BackupPC-users wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Nov 2025, Michael Stowe wrote: > > > On 2025-11-14 06:03, daggs via BackupPC-users wrote: > > > > > > > > as alpine linux doesn't provide backuppc, I'd like to build it, > > > > but I don't want the installation to be to the /, I want it > > > > locally under my home folder, rsync-bpc works, now I'm tackling > > > > backuppc-xs, is there a way to install it locally? > > > > > > It would seem harder to install remotely. Isn't anything you install, > > > installed locally? > > > > > > It's Linux. Install things wherever you want. Not that this is a best > > > practice, but it would be very hard for any software to prevent you from > > > doing so. > > > > as usual, I didn't explained myself properly, by locally I means > > locally to the user, e.g. inside his home folder and not the default > > location at / my apologies for not being clear. > > Firstly thank you for your attention to list etiquette when posting. > > Secondly, yes, around here and in the networking business generally we > usually use 'local' to mean "on a computer somewhere around here that > I can touch with my fingers if I want to" - and 'remote' usually means > "somewhere else on the planet, I might have no idea where"). > > Thirdly - and to answer your question - if you grab the latest version > of BackupPC-XS the instructions for doing exactly what you want are in > the README and INSTALL files in the top-level directory. I left them > there because for my testing before I released v0.63rc1 I had to tweak > the build system that way, and it seemed useful to leave the option in > there for anyone who might want to test the build before they actually > took the plunge and installed it for the whole system. I would really > welcome feedback about any problems you might encounter with the build > so do please let me know if you have any. (In order to fix things to > comply with the GNU terms of use I had to be rather severe with my > changes to the build system; the scripts still need work and are not > yet well tested.) Both the latest realease and the current 'stable' > release (0.62) use 'ExtUtils::MakeMaker' as part of the build process. > This means that, to specify where you want to install, you should be > able to use the same method for both 0.62 and 0.63rc1 - but AFAIK it's > only documented in the README/INSTALL files that I wrote for 0.63rc1. > I've never tested it for 0.62 so YMMV. FWIW I've been running 0.63rc1 > here on a production server for almost a week with no obvious issues. > > Please note that I'm on the Digest List, which means that I get a mail > from the BackupPC List Server once per day just after mid-day (UTC) so > this may sometimes cause a delay in my replies. > > -- > > 73, > Ged. > >
Thanks for the kind words, I've tried what you've suggested and it worked. but I had to disable the make test because it failed. now I'm facing an issue with building backuppc, I'll send a new mail on this. Dagg. > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ > _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
