On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Reid Rivenburgh wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Reid Rivenburgh wrote: > >> > > >> > >> >> > I thought I'd check here to see if there's anything else > >> >> > out there that would work. Ideally, it would be transparent to the > >> >> > clients, automatic when they're on the network, incremental.... You > >> >> > know, um, everything BackupPC does! Free and open source would be > >> >> > best.... > >> >> > >> >> If it is your network you shouldn't have to 'discover' it. The simple > >> >> fix is to configure your dhcp server to always give the same IP > >> >> addresses to the same MAC addresses and then either put the addresses > >> >> and names in the backuppc's hosts file or set up local DNS service. > >> >> There shouldn't be any problem running ssh, rsync, or tar on a Mac. > >> >> Many people on the backuppc mail list are backing up macs, so ask there > >> >> if you run into any problems. > >> > > >> > I've made a lot of progress on this. My router seems flaky about > >> > assigning reserved IP addresses, but that's supposed to work. A > >> > fedora-specific issue, though, is that I get an error when I try to > >> > use compression with BackupPC. Here's a little test perl program that > >> > demonstrates: > >> > > >> > #!/usr/bin/perl > >> > use Compress::Zlib; > >> > > >> > % ./compress-test.pl > >> > is only avaliable with the XS version at > >> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9 > >> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at > >> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9. > >> > Compilation failed in require at ./date-test.pl line 2. > >> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./date-test.pl line 2. > >> > > >> > Bug 434574 sounds related. I guess I can wait for this to get fixed > >> > and just not use compression in the meantime. Or do you know of a > >> > workaround...? > >> > >> Did you install the perl modules with yum? What does > >> rpm -ql perl-Compress-Zlib > >> say? > > > > Well, at the moment I have the fc9 one installed as part of trying to fix this: > > > > % rpm -q perl-Compress-Zlib > > perl-Compress-Zlib-2.005-3.fc9 > > > > % rpm -ql perl-Compress-Zlib > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Compress > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Compress > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Compress/Zlib > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Compress/Zlib/autosplit.ix > > /usr/share/doc/perl-Compress-Zlib-2.005 > > /usr/share/doc/perl-Compress-Zlib-2.005/Changes > > /usr/share/doc/perl-Compress-Zlib-2.005/README > > /usr/share/man/man3/Compress::Zlib.3pm.gz > > > > I probably just installed that one by downloading the .rpm file and > > installing it with rpm. That version didn't help, though. Same > > results with the fc8 one, which I'm sure I either originally installed > > with F8 or updated at some point with yum. > > > > Something seems to be missing. What is on line 9 of > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm where it says it is > failing? If it is a 'use' something, try to track it down. Normally, > installing with yum should take care of this for you. Here's line 9: use Scalar::Util qw(dualvar); If you look at bugzilla <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434574> you'll see that there seems to be an issue with Scalar::Util. The last comment there describes it. I take it you're not having this problem? Reid
