(Credit to Max Hetrick for writing both original and updated versions, and Sorin Srbu for currently hosting - did this ever make it to the wiki?)

Also, see the note about 64-bit CentOS below (but you might be better off going Richard's way):

Personal notes and gotcha's

• When installing BackupPC (BPC) using the C5-Testing repo, the default installation location will be in /var/lib/backuppc. This is also where the backup-files will be stored. It is likely you won't have the space to store the backup data on the main system harddrive, or you may feel this is not appropriate. So, if you like me have a separate raid-array for storing the backup data, the files and folders from /var/lib/backuppc need to be moved to this new location. It's easiest to take care of this before you start the actual backups (less data to move around).

   Assuming raid array is mounted on /bak.
   Move the contents of /var/lib/backuppc to a suitable place.
   Remove the backuppc-folder.
  # rmdir /var/lib/backuppc
  # cd /var/lib
  # ln -s /bak backuppc
   Move the contents to /bak.
  

• With CentOS v5.x the documentation-links in the web-GUI aren't in the expected location. Solve this by following the procedure outlined below.

  # cd /usr
  # ln -s /usr/share/backuppc/html/doc doc
  

• Courtesy of Martin Jeppesen: On 64bit CentOS, the admin has to change

  use lib "/usr/lib";
  
  to
  
  use lib "/usr/bin/BackupPC";
  
  in /usr/bin/BackupPC.
  

  Note from Martin: "Note that you will need to change *all* BackupPC scripts (unless the others have the correct value ...), i.e. BackupPC, BackupPC_archive, BackupPC_archiveHost, BackupPC_archiveStart ... let's hope they're all still named as they should be ;-)." Source: http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net/msg11285.html

Kris

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