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
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