Hello Jeff and sorry for top-replying but I'm not using a comfortable interface right now...
You state that there are "minor corrections": do you think that the ' (single quotes) now *have to be used* for delimiting parameter values? In fact, I'm now in a quite strange situation: 3.1.0 still running, but "dpkg -l | grep backuppc" tells me that 3.2.0 is installed! Any clues? Thanks. Flavio Boniforti PIRAMIDE INFORMATICA SAGL Via Ballerini 21 6600 Locarno Switzerland Phone: +41 91 751 68 81 Fax: +41 91 751 69 14 URL: http://www.piramide.ch E-mail: fla...@piramide.ch -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky [mailto:backu...@kosowsky.org] Inviato: lun 07.2.11 15:49 A: General list for user discussion, questions and support Oggetto: Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading is changing many thins in config.pl?! Why don't you just make a copy of the config file(s) and let apt proceed normally and then restore the old config files after the backup. Then if anything breaks when you run with the old configs you can fix it based on the error messages. But based on my recollection, most of the changes were additions of new variables or minor grammar/typo corrections, so it may just work as-is. What I did was to do a 'diff -ruw' between my edited 3.1.0 config file and the original virgin 3.1.0 config file. Then I applied that as a *patch* to the new 3.2.0 config file. I did this across versions (3.1.0 --> 3.2.0) and across Distros/architecture (Fedora 12/X86 --> Debian Lenny/armel). I think of several dozen config changes only 2 hunks failed to patch and it was pretty obvious how to fix them. Boniforti Flavio wrote at about 15:18:40 +0100 on Monday, February 7, 2011: > Hello again. > > > I'm in the middle of upgrading on my Debian Sid of BackupPC > > and get many differences in the config.pl file. Besides the > > differences depending on custom parameters (done by me), the > > main differences I see are like: > > > > -$Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} = '1'; > > +$Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} = 1; > > OK, not having too much time, I decided to go for the simple solution: I > told APT to maintain the actual config.pl > > What now happened is that the upgrade *failed*, but still the 3.1.0 is > running. > > Here the excerpts I got from APT: > > Starting backuppc...2011-02-07 14:16:05 Another BackupPC is running (pid > 1110); quitting... > invoke-rc.d: initscript backuppc, action "start" failed. > dpkg: error processing backuppc (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit > status 1 > > [...] > > Errors were encountered while processing: > backuppc > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > Where may I look for errors? > > Thanks, > Flavio Boniforti > > PIRAMIDE INFORMATICA SAGL > Via Ballerini 21 > 6600 Locarno > Switzerland > Phone: +41 91 751 68 81 > Fax: +41 91 751 69 14 > URL: http://www.piramide.ch > E-mail: fla...@piramide.ch > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources > and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's > connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these > rules translate into the virtual world? > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
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