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Welcome to the backuppc wiki!

This is a temporary page to keep track of useful ideas and pointers, we will try to do a better job in the near future.

Please bear with us! ;)

• Contributors
• Workflow and Policies

HOWTOs

• Build your own Packages
• Installing BackupPC 4 from tarball or git on Ubuntu
• Installing BackupPC 4 from tarball on CentOS 7
• How to use BackupPC with setuid on Debian with a setuid LSB executable
• How to make Backup using Rsync server on Windows
• How to make Backup using Rsync server on MAC/OS
• How to find which backups reference a particular pool file
• Running BackupPC with NGINX on CentOS 7
• How to setup a Success / Failure notification script

Troubleshooting

• Fix a corrupted backups file
• Fix wrong owner/user/permissions of files which were restored with rsyncd on certain glibc versions
• Tar as an Xfer method - switch adjustment
• BackupPC failure with keychain, ssh keys: rsync and tar error 65280

Community

• Users mailing list
• Developers mailing list
• Issue tracker