BackupPC is High-performance backup system
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install BackupPC on CentOS 8.
What is BackupPC
BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux and WinXX and Mac OS X PCs and laptops to a server’s disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain. NOTE information.
We can use yum or dnf to install BackupPC on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install BackupPC.
Install BackupPC on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install BackupPC using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install BackupPC
Install BackupPC on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install BackupPC using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install BackupPC
How To Uninstall BackupPC on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the BackupPC package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove BackupPC
BackupPC Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/BackupPC
/etc/BackupPC/apache.users
/etc/BackupPC/config.pl
/etc/BackupPC/config.pl.sample
/etc/BackupPC/hosts
/etc/BackupPC/hosts.sample
/etc/httpd/conf.d/BackupPC.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/BackupPC
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5/d254f5a60464412837bea1ce783e3230453fba
/usr/lib/systemd/system/backuppc.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/BackupPC.conf
/usr/libexec/BackupPC/BackupPC_Admin
/usr/share/BackupPC
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_Admin_SCGI
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_archive
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_archiveStart
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_attribPrint
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_backupDelete
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_backupDuplicate
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_fsck
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_ls
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_migrateV3toV4
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_nightly
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_poolCntPrint
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_refCountUpdate
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_restore
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_rrdUpdate
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarExtract
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_zcat
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_zipCreate
/usr/share/BackupPC/doc
/usr/share/BackupPC/doc/BackupPC.html
/usr/share/BackupPC/doc/BackupPC.pod
/usr/share/BackupPC/html
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/0000000.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/0000011.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/0001000.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/0010000.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/0010001.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/0011000.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/0011001.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1000000.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1000100.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1001000.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1001100.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1010000.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1010001.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1011000.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1100000.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1100100.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1100101.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1100110.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1100111.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1101000.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1101100.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1101101.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1101110.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1101111.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1110000.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1110001.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1110100.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1110101.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1110110.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1110111.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1111000.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1111001.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1111100.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1111101.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1111110.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/1111111.gif
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/BackupPC_retro_v2.css
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/BackupPC_retro_v3.css
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/BackupPC_stnd.css
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/apple-touch-icon.png
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/favicon-16x16.png
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/favicon-32x32.png
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/favicon.ico
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/icon-dir.png
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/icon-file.png
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/icon-hardlink.png
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/icon-symlink.png
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/logo320.png
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/safari-pinned-tab.svg
/usr/share/BackupPC/html/sorttable.js
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/AdminOptions.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/Archive.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/ArchiveInfo.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/Browse.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/DeleteBackup.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/DirHistory.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/EditConfig.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/EmailSummary.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/GeneralInfo.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/HostInfo.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/LOGlist.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/Lib.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/Metrics.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/Queue.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/ReloadServer.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/Restore.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/RestoreFile.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/RestoreInfo.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/StartServer.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/StartStopBackup.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/StopServer.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/Summary.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI/View.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Config
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Config/Meta.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/DirOps.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lang
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lang/cz.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lang/de.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lang/en.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lang/es.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lang/fr.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lang/it.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lang/ja.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lang/nl.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lang/pl.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lang/pt_br.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lang/ru.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lang/uk.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lang/zh_CN.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Storage
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Storage.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Storage/Text.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/View.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Xfer
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Xfer.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Archive.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Ftp.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Protocol.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Rsync.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Smb.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Tar.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Zip
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Zip/FileMember.pm
/usr/share/BackupPC/sbin
/usr/share/BackupPC/sbin/BackupPC_Admin
/usr/share/doc/BackupPC
/usr/share/doc/BackupPC/BackupPC.html
/usr/share/doc/BackupPC/BackupPC.pod
/usr/share/doc/BackupPC/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/BackupPC/README.RHEL
/usr/share/doc/BackupPC/README.md
/usr/share/doc/BackupPC/README.setup
/usr/share/licenses/BackupPC
/usr/share/licenses/BackupPC/LICENSE
/usr/share/selinux/packages/BackupPC/BackupPC.pp
/var/lib/BackupPC
/var/lib/BackupPC/cpool
/var/lib/BackupPC/pc
/var/lib/BackupPC/pool
/var/log/BackupPC
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install BackupPC on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
