How To Install BackupPC on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install BackupPC on Rocky Linux 8. BackupPC is High-performance backup system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install BackupPC on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install BackupPC.

Install BackupPC on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install BackupPC using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install BackupPC

Install BackupPC on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove BackupPC

BackupPC Package Contents on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.