Ubuntu: Install & Configure Backuppc

** For Backup Data in Ubuntu Server, Need to mount new volume/hd first to locate the backup files.

1. Add New Volume or Hard disk to backup server.
2. SSH to the server using putty.exe
3. Reboot server
   #reboot
4. SSH again  and  run
   #fdisk -l
   
5. Run command
    # mkfs.ext3  /dev/sdh
    # df -h
    # cd /mnt/
    # mkdir backup
    # chown -R backuppc:backuppc
   
6. Mount new volume/hd to backup
    # mount /dev/sdh backup/
    # df -h
   *To check if the volume mount to backup/

BACKUPPC INSTALLATION

1. Verifying that your server’s time and date are correct

   # date

   Thu Sep 20 03:48:04 UTC 2012

2. Update & upgrade ubuntu(if needed)

   # sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

3. Install backuppc

   # sudo apt-get install backuppc

4. By default config file located here:

   # nano /etc/backuppc/config.pl

5. Copy backuppc root dir ke /mnt/backup/

   # cd /var/lib/backuppc

   # cp -Rp /var/lib/backuppc /mnt/backup/

6. Backup & Edit config.pl

   # cd /etc/backuppc/

   # cp config.pl config.pl.ORI

   # nano /etc/backuppc/config.pl

7. Change $Conf{TopDir}

   $Conf{TopDir} = '/mnt/backup/backuppc';

8. Restart service backuppc

   # /etc/init.d/backuppc restart

9. Open from browser

   http://yourdomain.com/backuppc
   login & start config.