CentOS - Feb 2007 - Upgraded BackupPC (3.0.0) in the Testing Repository

There is an upgraded BackupPC in the testing repository.  It is version
3.0.0, which was released in January.

The setup differences between version 2.1.2 and this version is that
some file directories have shifted locations:

1.  /var/lib/backuppc/conf is now instead /etc/BackupPC/

2.  /var/lib/backuppc/log is now /var/log/BackupPC

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If you are upgrading ... you _CAN_NOT_ just copy your old config.pl
config file into /etc/BackupPC can continue on ... you need to migrate
in any changes that you made to original file to this config.pl file as
there are updated options in the new file.

How is the best way to do that ... you did save a copy of the original
file prior to changing it ... right :P

If not ... here is what I did:
----commands----
cd /tmp

mkdir backuppc

cd backuppc

wget
http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/backuppc-2.1.2-3.c4.centos4.i386.rpm

rpm2cpio backuppc-2.1.2-3.c4.centos4.i386.rpm | cpio -idv

----end commands-----

You should be in /tmp/backuppc and you should see all the files
(extracted) from the original RPM in there ... inside
the /tmp/backuppc/var/lib/backuppc/conf/ should be an original config.pl
file.  You can use that file to create a diff file that you can read to
make changes to the new config.pl file.

here is what I did prior to upgrade:

----commands----

cd /var/lib/backkuppc/

cp -a conf conf.bak

cp -a logs logs.bak

cd conf.bak

cp /tmp/backuppc/var/lib/backuppc/conf/config.pl config.pl.orig

diff config.pl.orig config.pl > config.pl.diff

----end commands----

Now you are ready to upgrade ... you will need to enable the testing
repo to do the upgrade (or download the files manually and install
manually via RPM).  How to do the upgrade via yum:

Put the testing repo file into /etc/yum.repos.d/ :

http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/CentOS-Testing.repo

(the file is disabled by default)

Once you have the file in place, use this command:
----commands----

yum --enablerepo=c4-testing upgrade backuppc perl-Compress-Zlib perl-File-RsyncP
perl-Time-modules perl-XML-RSS

----end commands----

(that command in all on one line if it wraps in your mail client)

You can use that diff file from above to manually add new changes to
the /etc/BackupPC/config.pl file after upgrade.

Also after upgrade, you can move all the files in /var/lib/backuppc/log/
to /var/log/BackupPC/

Once everything is configured ... restart backuppc and httpd

Once everything is working, you can get rid of the following directories
in "/var/lib/backuppc/" ... conf, conf.bak, log, log.bak

If you are installing new, replace "upgrade" with "install"
in the above
yum command ... and see the README.centos file
in /usr/share/doc/backuppc-3.0.0/ after install

Here is the original announcement, which also has good info:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2006-April/002216.html

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> There is an upgraded BackupPC in the testing repository.  It is version
> 3.0.0, which was released in January.
> 
> The setup differences between version 2.1.2 and this version is that
> some file directories have shifted locations:
> 
> 1.  /var/lib/backuppc/conf is now instead /etc/BackupPC/
> 
> 2.  /var/lib/backuppc/log is now /var/log/BackupPC
As a packager, I would seriously consider removing the mixed-case from the 
directory names (and package name) and contact backuppc about this fact.

In Unix we have a tendency to not use uppercase or mixed case for a 
specific reason and applications shouldn't mandate new standards or poison 
existing standards, more than they already have. (/etc/X11 comes to mind)

Kind regards,
--   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]