Install BackupPC4 Debian Ubuntu

The following page outlines how to install BackupPC 4 from the latest official release tarballs or from git. For instructions on building packages, see Build Your Own Packages.

These instructions are tested on Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 LTS. The script will likely work on other versions and on most other Debian-derived distributions as well.

Installing BackupPC 4 from the latest git sources is a rather long process at the moment. To make it easy, you can use the following script to install a dedicated BackupPC 4 server. The script is tested on a clean installation, so beware of any conflicting web sites if you are not installing on a dedicated server.

The script will use a single password for both your web interface backuppc user and the local backuppc user. It also allows any client to connect, so make sure to tune security settings for a production environment. Run it with root privileges (i.e. sudo bash installbackuppc or chmod 755 installbackuppc && sudo ./installbackuppc if you saved the script as installbackuppc).

IMPORTANT SCRIPT UPDATE: Latest script updated

#!/bin/bash
set -e
bpcver=4.2.1
bpcxsver=0.57
rsyncbpcver=3.0.9.12

# Needed only when installing
apt-get install -q -y apache2 apache2-utils libapache2-mod-perl2 glusterfs-client par2 perl smbclient rsync tar sendmail gcc zlib1g zlib1g-dev libapache2-mod-scgi rrdtool git make perl-doc libarchive-zip-perl libfile-listing-perl libxml-rss-perl libcgi-session-perl
echo -n "Give password or leave empty to generate one: "
read -s PASSWORD
echo
if [[ $PASSWORD == "" ]]; then
  apt-get -qq -y install pwgen
  PASSWORD=`pwgen -s -1 32`
  echo "Generated password: $PASSWORD"
else
  echo "Password given is: $PASSWORD"
fi
echo "$PASSWORD" > /root/password
chmod 600 /root/password
mkdir /srv/backuppc
ln -s /srv/backuppc/ /var/lib/backuppc
adduser --system --home /var/lib/backuppc --group --disabled-password --shell /bin/false backuppc
echo "backuppc:$PASSWORD" | sudo chpasswd backuppc
mkdir -p /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh
chmod 700 /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh
echo -e "BatchMode yes\nStrictHostKeyChecking no" > /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/config
ssh-keygen -q -t rsa -b 4096 -N '' -C "BackupPC key" -f /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/id_rsa
chmod 600 /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/id_rsa
chmod 644 /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
chown -R backuppc:backuppc /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh

# Fetch and install latest stable releases
wget https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc-xs/releases/download/$bpcxsver/BackupPC-XS-$bpcxsver.tar.gz
wget https://github.com/backuppc/rsync-bpc/releases/download/$rsyncbpcver/rsync-bpc-$rsyncbpcver.tar.gz
wget https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/releases/download/$bpcver/BackupPC-$bpcver.tar.gz
tar -zxf BackupPC-XS-$bpcxsver.tar.gz
tar -zxf rsync-bpc-$rsyncbpcver.tar.gz
tar -zxf BackupPC-$bpcver.tar.gz
cd BackupPC-XS-$bpcxsver
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
cd ../rsync-bpc-$rsyncbpcver
./configure
make
make install
cd ../BackupPC-$bpcver

# To fetch and install the latest development code instead, replace the above section with:
#git clone https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc.git
#git clone https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc-xs.git
#git clone https://github.com/backuppc/rsync-bpc.git
#cd backuppc-xs
#perl Makefile.PL
#make
#make test
#make install
#cd ../rsync-bpc
#./configure
#make
#make install
#cd ../backuppc
#./makeDist --nosyntaxCheck --releasedate "`date -u "+%d %b %Y"`" --version ${bpcver}git
#tar -zxf dist/BackupPC-${bpcver}git.tar.gz
#cd BackupPC-${bpcver}git

# When installing, use this
./configure.pl --batch --cgi-dir /var/www/cgi-bin/BackupPC --data-dir /var/lib/backuppc --hostname backuppc --html-dir /var/www/html/BackupPC --html-dir-url /BackupPC --install-dir /usr/local/BackupPC

# When upgrading, use this instead:
# ./configure.pl --batch --config-path /etc/BackupPC/config.pl

# The following is good also when upgrading, unless you have modified the files yourself
cp httpd/BackupPC.conf /etc/apache2/conf-available/backuppc.conf
sed -i "/deny\ from\ all/d" /etc/apache2/conf-available/backuppc.conf
sed -i "/deny\,allow/d" /etc/apache2/conf-available/backuppc.conf
sed -i "/allow\ from/d" /etc/apache2/conf-available/backuppc.conf

# Note that changing the apache user and group (next two commands) could cause other services
# provided by apache to fail. There are alternatives if you don't want to change the apache
# user: use SCGI or a setuid BackupPC_Admin script - see the docs.
sed -i "s/export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data/export APACHE_RUN_USER=backuppc/" /etc/apache2/envvars
sed -i "s/export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data/export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=backuppc/" /etc/apache2/envvars
echo '<html><head><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=/BackupPC_Admin"></head></html>' > /var/www/html/index.html
a2enconf backuppc
a2enmod cgid
service apache2 restart
cp systemd/init.d/debian-backuppc /etc/init.d/backuppc
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/backuppc
update-rc.d backuppc defaults
chmod u-s /var/www/cgi-bin/BackupPC/BackupPC_Admin
touch /etc/BackupPC/BackupPC.users
sed -i "s/$Conf{CgiAdminUserGroup}.*/$Conf{CgiAdminUserGroup} = 'backuppc';/" /etc/BackupPC/config.pl
sed -i "s/$Conf{CgiAdminUsers}.*/$Conf{CgiAdminUsers} = 'backuppc';/" /etc/BackupPC/config.pl
chown -R backuppc:backuppc /etc/BackupPC

# Needed only when installing
echo $PASSWORD | htpasswd -i /etc/BackupPC/BackupPC.users backuppc

service backuppc start

https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki/Installing-BackupPC-4-from-tarball-or-git-on-Ubuntu

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