How To Install BackupPC on CentOS 8

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

BackupPC website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install BackupPC on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.