A backup failed so I disabled the host, but the status page still listed the failure.
To delete this entry:
Stop backuppc [ /etc/init.d/backuppc stop ]
Search /var/lib/backuppc/log/status.pl for the failed host and delete the entry.
Restart backuppc [ /etc/init.d/backuppc start ]
If you upgrade Perl to 5.13.5 or beyond, backuppc will begin to spew this warning at every oppurtunity. Debian/wheezy currently has these warnings on startup and in backuppc logs.
Debian bug #650522 suggests surrounding each use of qw(…) with rounded parenthesis: (qw(…)). There are a lot these used throughout backuppc, so I took a slightly less ingenious but just as effective route.
By adding: “no warnings 'deprecated';” to the beginning of each file that uses qw(…), the warnings are suppressed. This change can be scripted by using the following one-liner:
grep -ril 'qw(' /usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/|while read file; do sed -i "1i no warnings 'deprecated';" $file; done
The location /usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/ is used on Debian/wheezy and may need adjusting for other distros.