How To Install BackupPC on Fedora 34

BackupPC is High-performance backup system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install BackupPC on Fedora 34.

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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install BackupPC.

Install BackupPC on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34

To uninstall only the BackupPC package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove BackupPC

BackupPC Package Contents on Fedora 34

/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/8d
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d/1e5cfa51411673d03a65e14734effe2c3523b5
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.