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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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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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Backuppc performance dropped dramatically

I've got a tiny server in my house which I use for file server and hosting test web sites for my clients, among other things. It uses backuppc for backups. The machine is a MSI Cubi N, backing up to a USB3 external hard drive. Some time ago backups…
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BackupPC files on NFS - web interface not working

if BackupPC files from dir /var/lib/BackupPC is moved to NFS mount, web interface not working. I see an only home page, but when I want to go to host config or to summary webpage timeouts (504 Gateway Timeout). In BackupPC logs isn't anything…
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backuppc not keeping backup history

We have backuppc backing up a number of computers on our network. One particular Windows 2003 server has a problem. Backuppc performs a backup twice a day using rsyncd just as set up, but keeps no history of backups. The backup number always remains…
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Backuppc won't backup due to no ping success

I have a working installation of BackupPC and I try to add a host, that is only reachable through a different host. For this reason, I created a ssh config file and reaching the host via rsync or ssh is no problem. But now I can't start a Backup…
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BackupPC Per host file exclusion

Is there a way to set exclusion directories per host in BackupPC? I would like to skip /home on 2 of my web cluster nodes that use NFS Mounts to the master server. Or, can I skip directories mounted via NFS?
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BackupPC schedule advanced settings

I've just installed this great tool for network backups called BackupPC but I'm having some difficulties setting the Schedule parameters as I want. As I see it, BackupPC has some basic schedule settings. What It can specify how often backups should…
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Previously-working rsync operation failling in recent Windows 8.1 update showing "error in socket io"

I have been running rsync and rsyncd on my Windows boxes for years and only recently have I had an issue. Apparently, when my Linux and FreeBSD boxes try to sync their data with what's on the Windows machines, the Windows-side shows this in the…
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BackupPC and rsync, disabling checks on date modified with --size-only not working for Lotus Domino mail archives

We have a BackupPC server that is supposed to be backing up a Lotus Domino 9 server, both on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit with rsync 3.0.9. Our Domino server is set to archive e-mail messages that are older that 12 months, and I have performed this archiving…
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BackupPC back-up has not been finished in 12 hours(!)

I installed BackupPC toda on a server and set it to do a back-up 12 hours ago... while it's been backing up since, it seems very very slow and it's not completed yet. It's just backing up a testserver with a total disk usage of 1.8GB. What could…
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Backuppc use smb

on linux server I use BackupPC and I want to do copys for windows clients. What lexic I should use? i now are using and work good: *.pl $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = { 'C$' => [ '/Testas' ] }; $Conf{SmbSharePasswd} =…
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cygwin ssh stops after adding user

I'm trying to set up a backuppc client using ssh+rsync via cygwin on Win 7. SSH was working fine. I added the backuppc user then used mkpasswd to add the user to /etc/passwd. Now ssh fails with: Windows could not start the CYGWIN sshd service on…
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BackupPC incremental backup problem

I have BackupPC application in CentOS 5.. clients are windows and RHEL machines.. I could take the Fullbackup for the client mahines ..But I can't take the increental backup.. When I took the incremental backup , it start incremental backup, but…
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Is the approach of backuppc (or similar backup architecture) safe in principle?

I'm looking over a physical server that runs VMware and 4-6 VMs (mostly Linux but also Windows10/11). Currently I'm backuping only 2 Linux VMs (the others aren't critical), by mounting an NFS share from our local NAS and using rsync to dump…
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BackupPC: Automatic Incremental backup is not triggering

From BackupPC I'm expecting that incremental/full backup should be triggered automatically on wakeup but I'm seeing that there is no Backup getting triggered and generated. Only manual backup is getting generated after clicking 'Start Full Backup'…
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