Backuppc Installation HowTo

just some edits & improvements :wink:

Maybe something missing, the backuppc user is not member of the sudoers, I find some tutorials where they talked about this requirement

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC
http://peektech.net/?p=12

But for now I have not tested.

mmm it’s for tar usage…probably we need to create a sudo policy, i’ll edit the howto

@AbsyntH amazing howto man :smiley: you’re doing a good job here!
Want to install it very soon and I’ll let you how this is going

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Great job @AbsyntH !
I want to try it asap.

Just a question on the fly: why I should prefer Backuppc to NethServer Backup module?

Thank you for contributing.

Take a look at this discussion: New module for centralized backup
The goal is to backup other systems ON NethServer and not NethServer itself

@sitz here i’ve only set up backuppc server, in a few days i’ll write an “upgrade” of this howto for done the backup of windows clients

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This sounds very very interesting @AbsyntH and now I can show the scenario into my head.
Thank you.

i’m also looking at http://fogproject.org/ for bare metal restore of windows clients…stay tuned

Wow wow wow!!!
It you need someone to test just let me know.

do backuppc works with window servers?

@AbsyntH looking forward the windows client part! And windows server too

added windows client configuration ( basic steps, if you want also advanced configuration settings…read the backuppc manual )

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Oh man that’s a great howto now :wink:
I gonna try this last part asap

Michele…what about to do in the backuppc module a web page to redirect to the cygwin download and provide configuration files to backup window clients

Take a look to this howto http://www.clearcenter.com/support/documentation/user_guide/backuppc

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@stephdl i’ll give a look in the afternoon :wink:

@stephdl give the download link it’s a good idea, but i don’t know if i want to give prebuilt configuration file for the client…too many variables that have to match , if we can not give something that is completely GUI based for client i prefer leave it configurable by users

Not sure it is destined to user usage, it is something to help the sysadmin, keep in mind that you need to give a password with user-name, it could be quickly a sensitive issue. Since My worse enemy is called Microsoft, I have not much time to give to the backup template of windows clients and some helps could be useful to save my time and test the backup settings(w8,w7,XP).

I have planned to offer a strong password with the IP of server in the template, and of course for security purpose, you should change it, or not.

so if the template is for sysadmin i think that the best way is to give a configuration file fully and in detail commented ( with best practices for pst / Exchange / shadow copy etc )

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I like it, it might be a helpful and a valuable contribution!

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