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BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux and Windows PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.

BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux and WinXX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.

Given the ever decreasing cost of disks and raid systems, it is now practical and cost effective to backup a large number of machines onto a server's local disk or network storage. This is what BackupPC does. For some sites, this might be the complete backup solution. For other sites, additional permanent archives could be created by periodically backing up the server to tape. A variety of Open Source systems are available for doing backup to tape.

BackupPC is written in Perl and extracts backup data via SMB using Samba, tar over ssh/rsh/nfs, or rsync. It is robust, reliable, well documented and freely available as Open Source on SourceForge.

From http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html

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backuppc - how to backup remote (over the internet) clients?

I am testing out backuppc, which works great so far backing up windows clients on a LAN via SMB (no backup client/agent required). However I have quite a few laptops and desktops that are in various remote locations - some of which move around. I…
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can't exclude directories on backuppc

i am tring to configure BackupPc to EXCLUDE some directories on my backups. I need to exclude many (very big) caches directories from backups on different machines can you help me? this is my configuration but doen't work, navigationg on the backups…
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Apache security hosting perl based backuppc graph missing in web GUI, which one is the best solution?

System: fresh and updated ubuntu Xenial Xerus 16.04.2. Started from a clean minimal system where only openssh was installed. In order to install backuppc 3.3.2 i did the following: apt-get install backuppc rsync libfile-rsyncp-perl par2 smbfs Apt…
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Unable to run cgi script

I've installed backuppc on a fresh Xubuntu. Everything went fine except that when I try to access the web interface, instead of running the CGI script I'm prompted to download a bin file. I'm no apache2 expert but backuppc.conf file looks fine to…
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Number of inodes explodes on reiserfs after certain number is reached/quota exceeded

I am using a CentOS 7 machine as a BackupPC server to pull in backups from my two frontend servers once per night. Last night the backups failed so I checked the server to see where the problem is. During my SSH session I was confronted with error…
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backuppc can't complete full backup. read error

I'm using backuppc on debian wheezy, the backup service never completes the first initial backp. I keep getting the "Parent read EOF from child: fatal error!" error. Tried to look it up, doesn't seem to tell me much about my problem. Tried nearly…
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Icinga2 - Unknown user:backuppc

I'm trying to monitor BackupPC with Icinga2.I've downloaded this plugin but I'm getting the following error. I've added this to commands.conf object CheckCommand "backuppc" { import "plugin-check-command" command = [ "sudo", "-u …
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BackupPC not completing backups

I'm running BackupPC on Ubuntu server and it suddenly stopped working. I'm getting the following error: File /var/lib/backuppc/pc/mail.vpl.lan/LOG.122015 Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/mail.vpl.lan/LOG.122015, modified 2015-12-18…
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transitioning packages to EPEL version

I have previously installed backuppc 3.1.0 from centos 5 testing. The package is now not maintaned by centos anymore. EPEL have BackupPC version 3.3.0, but yum check-update did not suggest that this package is a replacement for the backuppc package…
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Sporadic NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED from BackupPC via Samba

I have a BackupPC Server pulling backups from a Gentoo Linux machine (ext3 fs). This fails sporadically throwing errors like this 2014-06-10 12:00:19 full backup started for share uni 2014-06-10 12:03:43 Got fatal error during xfer…
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How to configure multiple hostfiles to split big backups in BackupPC?

With my current configuration the BackupPC creates one rsync(of tar for local) process per host. My config file is following: /etc/BackupPC/pc/myhost.pl: $Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/data'; In my /data I have many folders /data/01 /data/02 /data/03. I…
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Backup Server using Greyhole and BackupPC

I'm setting up an Ubuntu box to backup one of our servers using BackupPC. I've got 2x 2tb hard drives and I've set up Greyhole to duplicate the data from the samba share /mnt/samba/backups across both drives incase of failure. I need to set BackupPC…
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Backup HFS+ filesystem to linux server

I am the sysadmin for a small company with 3 Xserves running OSX 10.6.8 containing mission critical data that need to be backed up in an automated fashion. To accomplish this, we are going to deploy an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server with ~10 drives and an…
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backuupc connection refused after upgrade

I conducted an upgrade to Debian Buster and lifted the backuppc version as well. Now I get an error when logging in to the website This CGI script (/backuppc/index.cgi) is unable to connect to the BackupPC server on backuppc port -1. The error was:…
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Backuppc | Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE)

I am running backuppc version 3.3.1 on an Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS, I try to backup several Linux servers, almost Debian, ubuntu or proxmox hosts. My issue is that when I run the Full/Incermental backup from webUI I got the message: 2018-08-06 14:22:32…
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