Hi Sorin, Jeff, et al.
I am the one who contributed
https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki/Build-Your-Own-Packages
and I am mostly lurking on the mailing list with a few posts here and
there.
Disclaimer: My work was build on top of Benjamin Renard and already
received contributions from i.e. Richard Hansen and a Github user named
"wwuck".
On 2021-01-05 19:42, Sorin Srbu wrote:
On Tue, 2021-01-05 at 12:28 -0500, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
Sorin Srbu wrote at about 16:35:16 +0100 on Tuesday, January 5, 2021:
[...]
> On Tue, 2021-01-05 at 09:13 -0600, Robert E. Wooden wrote:
> > On 1/5/2021 9:05 AM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
> > > I don't have a BPA, but I have compiled my own bpc 4.x for
Ubuntu
> > > 18.04 - with code from June 2020.
> > > I can send you the packages if you want...
> > > Sorin Srbu wrote at about 15:50:05 +0100 on Tuesday, January 5,
2021:
> > > > Hello all!
> > > >
> > > > I've been away from BPC a few years because of changing
jobs where there
> > > > already were commercial backup systems in place and thus no
need for
> > > > BackupPC. However, along the road I also picked up a slew
of new
> > > > technologies and am now running a three-node
Proxmox-cluster at home for lab
> > > > stuff as well as personal advancement. All these physical
and virtual
> > > > servers need to be backed up and here I am back with
BackupPC. :-)
> >
> > I was searching for this the other day (because CentOS 8 goes EOL
> > 12-31-2021) and found there are *.deb packages somewhere on the
wiki
> > pages. Might be the packages being discussed here, if so, sorry
for
> > redundancy.
>
> Found them on
> https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki/Build-Your-Own-Packages.
>
> So this guy Raoul Bhatia is known on this list and in BackupPC dev
circles?
>
> And yes, I've picked up some paranoia too during my time away from
BPC, and
> tend use official stable releases. :-)
>
I started with Raoul's packages for 4.0.x but they weren't being
frequently updated. I downloaded them and examined the package code -
all looked legit.
So, I used them as the basis for creating my own version with more
updated code.
Gotcha', thanks.
Will look into rolling my own upgrade eventually it seems.
I think Debian may use a newer stable release of BPC.
Maybe I can find something there. Till now, I've focused on Ubuntu
packages
only.
FYI: I am packaging as time permits (job, family) and on the
architectures used by myself or explicitly requested. Thus, there might
not be an up-to-date package that fits your environment.
However, I am definitely *very* happy to accept pull requests and/or
other contributions.
Additionally, others started to build off of my work, i.e.
https://launchpad.net/~rhansen/+archive/ubuntu/backuppc (though it seems
it hasn't been updated to 4.4 yet?).
Having said that, there is also an effort underway to officially package
BackupPC 4.4 for Debian.
It was recently submitted and is already available on testing.
You can find details here https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/backuppc
(Though I did not yet check the current status/differences)
Eventually, my plan would be to switch to the official Debian packages
(that will also end up in Ubuntu somewhen) and continue my contribution
there.
I would be hopeful that my package would fit your needs.
Feel free to get back to me with any questions and/or suggestions.
Cheers,
Raoul
--
DI (FH) Raoul Bhatia MSc
E-Mail. ra...@bhatia.at
Tel. +43 699 10132530
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