Introducing BackupPC

Sean Reifschneider

tummy.com, ltd.

What is BackupPC?

• Backup server software.
• No client required.
• Backs up via rsync, tar, or samba.
• Usually via SSH
• Very easy install.
• Like rsync+hardlinks, but more automatic.

More Features

• Web management front-end.
  • Configuration.
  • Backups and restores.
  • Recover to hosts or in browser.
• Compression plus file de-duplication.
• Intermittantly connected client.
• Scheduler with black-out windows.
• RSS feed for backups and "live bookmark".

Gotchas

• Makes very heavy use of file-system hard links.
• Compression can really use cycles.
• Tweaks for running when running big systems.
• Uses it's own rsync implementation (no rsync3).

Easy to Install

• Ubuntu
  • apt-get install backuppc par2 libxml-feed-perl libio-all-perl fping
  • Make a note of the password it sets up.
• Fedora
  • yum install BackupPC
  • htpasswd -c /etc/BackupPC/apache.users backuppc
  • Change /etc/BackupPC/config.pl "CgiAdminUserGroup" and "CgiAdminUsers"
  • chkconfig backuppc on
  • service backuppc restart

Demonstration

• A demonstration of BackupPC.

References

• http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
• http://www.tummy.com/Community/Presentations/