BackupPc & Apache

Name: Apache
HomePage: http://www.apache.org/
function: Webserver

1. Firstly download the source from the BackupPC's homepage

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

2. Next unzip the source files

tar -zxvf BackupPC-2.1.2.tar.gz
3. now move into the folder and install it

perl configure.pl

4. Follow the steps to installing it, when It asks for the user name to install it with, choose either httpd or apache depending on what your apache web server runs as.

These are the settings I used when installing it on Fedora Core 5

--> Full path to existing conf/config.pl []?
--> Are these paths correct? [y]? y
--> BackupPC will run on host [fedora.directory.server]? fedora.directory.server
--> BackupPC should run as user [backuppc]? apache
--> Install directory (full path) []? /var/backuppc
--> Data directory (full path) []? /var/backuppc/data
--> Compression level [3]? 3
--> CGI bin directory (full path) []? /var/www/cgi-bin
--> Apache image directory (full path) []? /var/www/icons
--> URL for image directory (omit http://host; starts with '/') []? /icons
--> Do you want to continue? [y]? y

5. Next I had to protect the cgi-bin with a password.

htpasswd -c /var/backuppc/passwd backupadmin

6. Now setup the BackupPC server startup script

cp BackupPC-2.1.2/init.d/linux-backuppc /etc/init.d/backuppc

chmod a+rwx /etc/init.d/backuppc

7. Now start the server and set it to start on boot

/etc/init.d/backuppc start

chkconfig linux-backuppc on

8.  coming soon…

BookMarking:

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Trouble Shooting:

Go to the wiki page

Go to the 'Contact Us ' Forum

Go to the how-to's Support Forum

External Links:

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html