iarteaga wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am testing BackupPC in a CentOS box and it is working great ... but now I 
> want to backup the BackupPC server itself. I am using an external drive as 
> backup storage and I want to schedule a backup for the BackupPC system and 
> config files. Is this possible? if so, how can I configure the path to the 
> files to backup if the server and client would be in the same machine....
> 

Yes, and here's a localhost.pc that's supplied by the current stable release of 
Debian that uses tar to back up your /etc as the backuppc user.  For my 
BackupPC server I extended it to call a shell script to run tar as root using 
sudo and to call pre and post commands to set up my filesystems as LVM 
snapshots.

#
# Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc
#
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar';

$Conf{TarShareName} = ['/etc'];

$Conf{TarClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C $tarPath -c -v -f - -C 
$shareName'
                      
  . ' --totals';

# remove extra shell escapes ($fileList+ etc.) that are
# needed for remote backups but may break local ones
$Conf{TarFullArgs} = '$fileList';
$Conf{TarIncrArgs} = '--newer=$incrDate $fileList';

Works quite well, and since I use variations of rsync to do alternate backups 
of my server I felt it best to use tar, the extra bytes transmitted don't 
matter much when they're all on one host.

- Harold

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