BackupPC when installed from the centos Repo and using my older post is quite an old version – a lot of updates have happened on github since it moved away from Sourceforge: How to Install BackupPC on Centos 6.8 What we aim to accomplish: Upgrade of BackupPC Finishing touches (edits) Add some CSS to make it look nice Firstly shutdown services backuppc and httpd: sudo service backuppc stop sudo service httpd stop We […]
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BackupPC configuration of Server and Client
We will now configure the server and backup client (in my case another centos server) Firstly let’s generate a RSA key pair for the backuppc user on the backup server: ssh root@backup01 mkdir /var/lib/BackupPC/.ssh chown backuppc:backuppc /var/lib/BackupPC/.ssh chmod 700 /var/lib/BackupPC/.ssh Now use the backuppc user to create a key pair: su -s /bin/bash backuppc You will get a bash-4.1$ or something similar prompt: type: ssh-keygen -t dsa Press Enter a few times, […]
How to Install BackupPC on Centos 6.8
Enable Networking: How to Enable Static IP on Centos 6 Post Installation Configurations: How to configure Centos 6 after Installation Install and enable Epel Release: yum install epel-release -y Install backuppc: yum install backuppc mod_perl mod_ssl -y It will install httpd, rsync and everything else it needs. It’s installed a web server, but in order that we can browse it we have to at least open up port 80. In this case I […]
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