BackupPC

First off let us resolve the dependancies:

yum install httpd expect perl-Compress-Zlib perl-Archive-Zip perl-File-RsyncP mod_perl

Create a user for BackupPC and set it's passwd:

useradd backuppc

passwd backuppc

Create the directory where the backups need to go and set it's permissions:

mkdir -p /data/BackupPC/

chmod -R 750 /data/BackupPC/

chown -R backuppc:backuppc /data/BackupPC/

Download and extract the latest version from Sourceforge: BackupPC Sourceforge page

wget http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/backuppc/BackupPC-3.1.0.tar.gz

tar zxvf BackupPC-3.1.0.tar.gz

cd BackupPC-3.1.0

Now we run the installer:

perl configure.pl

Is this a new installation or upgrade for BackupPC? If this is

an upgrade please tell me the full path of the existing BackupPC

configuration file (eg: /etc/BackupPC/config.pl). Otherwise, just

hit return.

--> Full path to existing main config.pl []?

I found the following locations for these programs:

bzip2 => /usr/bin/bzip2

cat => /bin/cat

df => /bin/df

gtar/tar => /bin/gtar

gzip => /bin/gzip

hostname => /bin/hostname

nmblookup => /usr/bin/nmblookup

par2 =>

perl => /usr/bin/perl

ping => /bin/ping

rsync => /usr/bin/rsync

sendmail => /usr/sbin/sendmail

smbclient => /usr/bin/smbclient

split => /usr/bin/split

ssh/ssh2 => /usr/bin/ssh

--> Are these paths correct? [y]?

Please tell me the hostname of the machine that BackupPC will run on.

--> BackupPC will run on host [backup.domain.co.za]?

BackupPC should run as a dedicated user with limited privileges. You

need to create a user. This user will need read/write permission on

the main data directory and read/execute permission on the install

directory (these directories will be setup shortly).

The primary group for this user should also be chosen carefully.

The data directories and files will have group read permission,

so group members can access backup files.

--> BackupPC should run as user [backuppc]?

Please specify an install directory for BackupPC. This is where the

BackupPC scripts, library and documentation will be installed.

--> Install directory (full path) [/usr/local/BackupPC]?

Please specify a data directory for BackupPC. This is where all the

PC backup data is stored. This file system needs to be big enough to

accommodate all the PCs you expect to backup (eg: at least several GB

per machine).

--> Data directory (full path) [/data/BackupPC]?

BackupPC can compress pool files, providing around a 40% reduction in pool

size (your mileage may vary). Specify the compression level (0 turns

off compression, and 1 to 9 represent good/fastest to best/slowest).

The recommended values are 0 (off) or 3 (reasonable compression and speed).

Increasing the compression level to 5 will use around 20% more cpu time

and give perhaps 2-3% more compression.

--> Compression level [3]?

BackupPC has a powerful CGI perl interface that runs under Apache.

A single executable needs to be installed in a cgi-bin directory.

This executable needs to run as set-uid backuppc, or

it can be run under mod_perl with Apache running as user backuppc.

Leave this path empty if you don't want to install the CGI interface.

--> CGI bin directory (full path) []? /var/www/cgi-bin/backuppc

BackupPC's CGI script needs to display various GIF images that

should be stored where Apache can serve them. They should be

placed somewhere under Apache's DocumentRoot. BackupPC also

needs to know the URL to access these images. Example:

Apache image directory: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/BackupPC

URL for image directory: /BackupPC

The URL for the image directory should start with a slash.

--> Apache image directory (full path) []? /var/www/html/BackupPC

--> URL for image directory (omit http://host; starts with '/') []? /BackupPC

Ok, we're about to:

- install the binaries, lib and docs in /usr/local/BackupPC,

- create the data directory /data/BackupPC,

- create/update the config.pl file /etc/BackupPC/config.pl,

- optionally install the cgi-bin interface.

--> Do you want to continue? [y]? y

Edit /etc/BackupPC/config.pl and change the fields listed as follows:

$Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [];

$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync';

$Conf{CgiAdminUsers} = 'admin';

Copy the init script and enable BackupPC on bootup:

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

chmod +x /etc/init.d/backuppc

/etc/init.d/backuppc start

chkconfig backuppc on

Create a new configuration file for the web interface vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/backuppc.conf and add the following:

SetHandler perl-script

PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry

PerlOptions +ParseHeaders

Options +ExecCGI

Order deny,allow

Deny from all

Allow from $IP RANGE

AuthName "Backup Admin"

AuthType Basic

AuthUserFile /var/www/cgi-bin/.backuppcpsswd

AllowOverride All

Require valid-user

or....

vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

and add the following at the end,

#

user backuppc

group backuppc

ServerName 192.168.0.227

SetHandler perl-script

PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry

PerlOptions +ParseHeaders

Options +ExecCGI

Order deny,allow

Deny from all

Allow from $IP RANGE

AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig

AuthName "Backup Admin"

AuthType Basic

AuthUserFile /var/www/cgi-bin/.backuppcpsswd

Require valid-user

Create the admin user:

htpasswd -c /var/www/cgi-bin/.backuppcpsswd admin

Change the user apache runs as (works with Scalix) otherwise configure a new instance of apache, edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

User backuppc

Group backuppc

Restart apache:

service httpd restart

Check for errors

tail -f /var/log/httpd/error_log