Holger Parplies wrote: > 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 > Apologies for the partial message - I've been spending too much time in MSN Messenger - a Ctrl+<Enter> caused Thunderbird to fire it off.
I found a BackupPC 3.0.0 .deb for Ubuntu, but it was for Gutsy. First of all I tried adding gutsy to the end of my sources.list, updating and forcing an install with apt-get install -f -t gutsy install backuppc but the beast would have none of that and just told me I had the latest version. Then I backed up my sources.list and edited it to fetch for gutsy, instead of edgy and ran apt-get update and tried apt-get install backuppc and the beast was willing, but I wasn't as a lot of base components were going to be installed. And gutsy is not ready for prime time. So, other than doing a dpkg -i on a downloaded .deb, which could keep me v. busy chasing dependencies, I guess I'll just waste some disk space and accept that some directories will inadvertently be picked up from the desktops. Thanks for everyone's suggestions and encouragement. Regards - Miles Thompson PS Oh yes, I reset my sources.list and re-ran apt-get update. /mt ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
