Re: BackupPC 4.1.0 released

Yes, IncrLevel is no longer used in 4.x.  But rather than add a bogus
setting to config.pl, it would be better to fix the init script so that it
doesn't enforce a condition that is no longer true for 4.x.

Craig

On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Bill Broadley <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I upgraded two backuppc servers (both ubuntu 14.04) so far with:
> 1) cpan install BackupPC::XS
> 2) manual install of rsync-bpc (./configure --prefix=/opt/pkg/rsync-
>   bpc-<version>; make; make install
> 3) then just ran the backuppc configure script (and mention the path for
>   rsync-bpc)
>
> It "just worked", except the ubuntu init script has:
>     grep -q IncrLevel $CONF || BAD=1
>
> Which triggers (for those googleing the error):
>   BackupPC cannot be started because important parameters are missing from
>   config.pl.  If you just upgraded BackupPC, please update /etc/backuppc
>   /config.pl
>
> Took me awhile to find because it's not in dmesg, syslog, or stdout/stderr
> for
> the daemon.
>
> I added to the config.pl:
>          'IncrLevel' => '1',
>
> Started up.  Seems happy, did a test restore, and am now doing a migrate
> to see
> how that impacts performance, pool size, and number of inodes.
>
> On a 2.7TB pool so far it's around 30% more inodes and 1% more space, but
> it's
> only processes less than half the hosts.  I'm also rather curious about
> the time
> to backup for 3.x vs 4.x.
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