Re: [BackupPC-users] Time to upgrade from 2.1.2?

[Miles T. <mil...@sp...>]

Holger Parplies wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Miles Thompson wrote on 22.05.2007 at 09:08:39 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Time to upgrade from 2.1.2?]:
>   
>> Martin Sundmacher wrote:
>>     
>>> Miles Thompson schrieb:
>>>       
>>>> We used apt-get to fetch and install BackupPC on our Edgy Eft server.
>>>> The version is apparently 2.1.2 dated  5 Sept, 2005 according to the
>>>> comments in the main BackupPC file.
>>>>
>>>> It's only been running a couple of weeks; would an upgrade be painful?
>>>>         
>>> I did Upgrades to 3.0.0 on 3 Debian-Servers. One is running for weeks 
>>> now without any problems. My last upgrade was yesterday. Ubuntu should 
>>> be similar.
>>>
>>>       
>> These are all Perl scripts, so what's involved with the upgrade?
>>
>> Just grab the new scripts, untar and then copy them over the old ones?
>> Or is it necessary to re-edit the whole configuration file?
>>     
>
> as a rule of thumb, if you installed through the package management system,
> you should also upgrade through it.
>
> This is especially true for BackupPC on Debian, because it uses non-standard
> paths (/etc/backuppc instead of /etc/BackupPC) and patched scripts. Several
> people have asked for help recovering from an update attempt via the upgrade
> script from the tarball, meaning the upgrade is *not* successful that way.
>
> For Debian, there's a 3.0.0 package in lenny/sid. As you said, there are no
> binaries in the package and thus no dependencies not satisfiable within
> etch or even sarge. It seems to be safe to simply download the 3.0.0 package
> and install it with 'dpkg -i' (in fact, I just did that on my sarge server -
> more for the sake of having done it once than because I desperately want the
> web based configuration editor - and the only thing noteworthy is that you'll
> have to manually merge the changes you applied to the main config.pl into the
> new one, because it adds quite a few settings that you need).
>
> I don't know about the status of BackupPC in Ubuntu, but I'd guess there's
> probably a 3.0.0 version somewhere. I'd recommend that for upgrading,
> regardless of the Ubuntu release it is in.
>
> Installing the Debian package in Ubuntu or vice-versa should probably be safe,
> but updating from one to the other could potentially lead to the same problems
> you get with the tarball update script.
>
> Regards,
> Holger
>   
Thanks Holger.
That will become this afternoon's project.
Miles