[BackupPC-devel] BackupPC 4.0.0alpha2 released

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

BackupPC community,

I'm pleased to announce that BackupPC 4.0.0alpha2 has been released on
SourceForge at:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/backuppc/files/backuppc-beta/4.0.0alpha2/


BackupPC 4.0.0alpha2 has a couple of new features and some bug fixes:

   - support for an SCGI interface (which allows Apache to run as any user,
   with requests handled by BackupPC_Admin_SCGI, which is run by the BackupPC
   server).
   - parallelizing BackupPC_refCountUpdate, which is run each night by
   BackupPC_nightly.

If you are using alpha0 or alpha1, I recommend you upgrade.

Each of the three packages in the release has been updated.  You should
upgrade all three packages:

   - BackupPC-4.0.0alpha2.tar.gz: the usual BackupPC release tar ball.
   - BackupPC-XS-0.20.tar.gz: a perl XS module with C code that replaces
   several BackupPC perl libraries for improved performance.
   - rsync-bpc-3.0.9.2.tar.gz: a modified rsync that runs on the server
   that has a shim layer that interfaces directly to the BackupPC file
   system.

I've attached some short notes on the build/install steps for each package.

This release is getting close to beta0. The only missing feature is FTP
xfer support.

I'd be interested in feedback.

Craig

BackupPC-XS-0.20.tar.gz:

  tar zxvf BackupPC-XS-0.20.tar.gz
  cd BackupPC-XS-0.20
  perl Makefile.PL
  make
  make test
  make install

rsync-bpc-3.0.9.2.tar.gz:

  tar zxvf rsync-bpc-3.0.9.2.tar.gz
  cd rsync-bpc-3.0.9.2
  ./configure.sh
  make
  make install

BackupPC-4.0.0alpha2.tar.gz:

  tar zxvf BackupPC-4.0.0alpha2.tar.gz
  cd BackupPC-4.0.0alpha2
  ./configure.pl

The last step for each will need to be run as a privileged user.

If you want to install rsync_bpc in /usr/local/bin (default might be
/usr/bin), then you should add the --prefix option to configure.sh:

  ./configure.sh --prefix=/usr/local