Is the Infscape Appliance for Raspberry Pi 4 discontinued?

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Hi there,

I wonder if the appliance is discontinued for Raspberry Pi 4 is discontinued because I do not find an image on the official download site UrBackup Appliance Download – Infscape Backup Software

I only find it in two blog entries of Martin, the main developer. Besides that, the most recent RPi 4 image there is based on Debian 9 (Stretch) while the image for 64-bit x86 processors is up to date on Debian 10 (Buster).

Perhaps Martin may clarify his plans on the future of the appliance on Raspberry Pi 4?

Thanks in advance,

wechsler

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It was never linked from the download site.

I’ve put up a system update. I’ve been testing it for a while, but forgot to put it on the update server. Could you let me know if it works/doesn’t?

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Hi uroni,
thanks for providing the system update from stretch to buster. The good news: it worked in general.
However, I noticed two pitfalls.
a) the /boot partition gets filled up, so a common Debian update (apt get update and apt get upgrade) failed. I had to remove to former Linux kernel images manually and now the boot partition is on 30 MB size again. I think the update log file seems to indicate problems to remove the old kernel (see log file below)
b) python3 -V shows Python 3.9.1+ . But trying to “apt install python3-dev” for example yields dependency error which can not be solved. It seems that these packages all belong to Python 3.7.x which is as far as I know the default Python version for Debian Buster. So is there a way to either use a full fledged Python 3.9 including all packages or to return to Python 3.7.x?

Thanks again.

The log file of the appliance system update Debian Stretch → Buster:

09/03/21 17:01 INFO Downloading version file…
09/03/21 17:01 INFO Downloading signature…
09/03/21 17:01 INFO Getting update file URL…
09/03/21 17:01 INFO Downloading update file…
09/03/21 17:01 INFO Successfully downloaded update file.
09/03/21 17:01 INFO Successfully downloaded update file.
09/03/21 17:01 INFO Downloading version file…
09/03/21 17:01 INFO Downloading version file…
09/03/21 17:01 INFO Downloading signature…
09/03/21 17:01 INFO Getting update file URL…
09/03/21 17:01 INFO Downloading update file…
09/03/21 17:01 INFO Successfully downloaded update file.
09/03/21 17:01 INFO Successfully downloaded update file.
09/03/21 17:12 INFO Getting max system version…
09/03/21 17:12 INFO Max system version is 5.4
09/03/21 17:13 WARNING Low free space on system disk (24.9799 GB)
09/03/21 17:13 INFO Getting max system version…
09/03/21 17:13 INFO Max system version is 5.4
09/03/21 17:13 INFO Getting current max system version…
09/03/21 17:13 INFO Getting update file URL…
09/03/21 17:13 INFO Downloading signature…
09/03/21 17:13 INFO Downloading system update…
09/03/21 17:14 INFO Checking system update signature…
09/03/21 17:14 INFO Unpacking system update…
09/03/21 17:14 INFO Unpacked system update to version 4.43
09/03/21 17:14 INFO Getting update file URL…
09/03/21 17:14 INFO Downloading signature…
09/03/21 17:14 INFO Downloading system update…
09/03/21 17:14 INFO Checking system update signature…
09/03/21 17:15 INFO Unpacking system update…
09/03/21 17:15 INFO Unpacked system update to version 5.4
09/03/21 17:15 INFO Creating kernel backup…
09/03/21 17:15 INFO Applying minor system update to version 4.43…
09/03/21 17:45 INFO Applying system update to version 5.4…
09/03/21 18:05 INFO Finalizing system update to version 5.4…
09/03/21 18:14 WARNING System update requires restart. Restarting UrBackup in 1 second…
09/03/21 18:14 INFO Successfully updated system.
09/03/21 18:14 WARNING Removing kernel backup failed:
09/03/21 18:14 WARNING Removing kernel backup failed:
09/03/21 18:14 INFO Log finished

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Updating the kernel via Debian isn’t really supported. The kernel is patched too.

Yes, it is a Frankendebian (for various reasons). Temporarily add bullseye to sources and it should install python3.9-dev.

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Thanks uroni for hints and explanations!

With the next re-installation I avoided to update the Debian system manually and it stays now with kernel 5.10.60-20210825-ge4cb65cf23c7-p4-bis . So now more problems with a filled up /

Wow, I had first to google for “what is Frankendebian”. Ok, now I understand the situation better. However, temporarily adding bullseye to sources installs python3.9-dev which is needed for some of my Python venvs I thought to put in /var/urbackup. But it also updates Python 3.9.1+ to Python 3.9.2. Installing for example python3-rpi.gpio leaves the appliance Python3 at Python 3.9.1+ as it was.