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[Reid Rivenburgh]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
>  > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> 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