KerbyServer

I have been a happy user of BackupPC for at least a couple years now. It makes backing up my various servers quite painless and worry free. Recently, an RPM for BackupPC version 3.0.0 was added to the Fedora 7 updates repository. Since Fedora 7's launch, version 2.1.2 of BackupPC was the only option. Personally, I was thinking the upgrade to BackupPC version 3 would be one of the sticky points when I upgrade to Fedora 8 in a couple months. Fortunately, the BackupPC package maintainer has been testing version 3 for some time now and just deployed it as stable to the updates repo. I just performed the upgrade quite smoothly, so that's one less thing to worry about down the road.

Here are some things to keep in mind if you are upgrading from 2.1.2 to 3.0.0 like me:

Config and log files have been moved to /etc/BackupPC and /var/log/BackupPC respectively. When upgrading via yum, my config files were gracefully moved from their old location in /var/lib/BackupPC/conf to the new /etc/BackupPC directory. The new log directory was also created, but I had to move the log files manually out of /var/lib/BackupPC/log to /var/log/BackupPC. No big deal.

When the host specific config files were moved, they were kept in the root level of the config directory. I had to move each of them to the pc directory (/etc/BackupPC/pc) so they would take effect.

The only other thing I had to do myself was set up the new config.pl file. Yum warns that it was created as config.pl.rpmnew so the old file is not overwritten. I moved my old config.pl and edited the new file to match most of my former settings. There are several new options, but the config file is very well documented, so that was pretty easy, just a bit time consuming.

That's it...I started BackupPC running again and I'm now at version 3.0.0 :)

The web interface has been very nicely improved. Besides some new colors, there is more functionality in editing various config files and the hosts file directly from the browser. I look forward to seeing what else is new, though it's a pretty hard product to improve on considering its current functionality.