Re: BackupPC in a commercial setting / support status

Hi Ged,

Great.  We've been monitoring the activity on the project.  It's very 
encouraging to see it being actively developed again - very much 
appreciate your support.

We'll look into setting up a test env to take the RC for a spin.

Steve

On 13/11/2025 21:23, G.W. Haywood wrote:
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> Hi there,
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> On Tue, 3 Jun 2025, Steven Benbow wrote:
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>> ... if something can be put in place we would be interested to
>> participate further with some minor developments (UI tweaks etc.)
>> that we've been considering.  But in the first instance a new
>> release, just so that we can point to a 2025 version, would
>> certainly help!
>
> Yesterday I released version 0.63 of BackupPC-XS on Github.
>
> This evening I also released version 4.4.1rc1 of BackupPC itself.
>
> You can get them both by downloading the master branch 'Zip' file, or
> by cloning with git.
>
> The new version of BackupPC requires the new version of BackupPC-XS,
> although you can use version 0.62 if you make a one-character change
> to the .../bin/BackupPC Perl script which specifies 0.63.
>
> Although I'm running them here on a production server, please consider
> them experimental at this stage.  As - obviously - they have not been
> packaged by any distribution, if you want to test them they will need
> to be installed from source.  I expect BackupPC-XS 0.63 builds to be a
> source of entertainment for quite some time.
>
> These releases are completely compatible with backups made by V4.4.0,
> there is no need for any change to any previously backed up data.
>
> At this stage there is no change to rsync-bpc, which together with the
> smbclient interface is where the bulk of what I (jokingly) describe as
> my free time will be spent for very probably the rest of this year.
>
> At least I hope so.  I'm here to help.
>
> -- 
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> 73,
> Ged.
>
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