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Updated by Daniel Curtis over 9 years ago

This is a guide for installing BackupPC on FreeBSD 9.3. 

 h2. Setting up the Environment 

 * Start by making sure everything is up to date: 
 <pre> 
 pkg update && pkg upgrade 
 portsnap fetch extract 
 </pre> 

 * Install portmaster: 
 <pre> 
 pkg install portmaster 
 </pre> 

 h2. Install BackupPC 

 * Install BackupPC from ports: 
 <pre> 
 portmaster sysutils/backuppc 
 </pre> 
 *NOTE*: I decided to enable @[X]NMBLOOKUP@, @[X]SMBCLIENT@ and @[X]FILE_RSYNCP@ during the port configuration. 

 * Create a config file for backuppc: 
 <pre> 
 /usr/local/etc/backuppc/update.sh 
 </pre> 

 * Change the ownership of the backuppc config: 
 <pre> 
 chown backuppc:backuppc /usr/local/etc/backuppc/config.pl 
 </pre>  

 * And then enable the service to start at boot: 
 <pre> 
 echo 'backuppc_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf 
 </pre> 

 * Start backuppc: 
 <pre> 
 service backuppc start 
 </pre> 

 h2 . Install Apache 

 * Install apache24 and mod_perl2: 
 <pre> 
 portmaster www/apache24 www/perl2 
 </pre> 

 * Edit the main apache config: 
 <pre> 
 vi /usr/local/etc/apache24/httpd.conf 
 </pre> 
 #* And change the *User* and *Group* to backuppc: 
 <pre> 
 User backuppc 
 Group backuppc 
 </pre> 

 * Create a backuppc apache config: 
 <pre> 
 vi /usr/local/etc/apache24/Includes/backuppc.conf 
 </pre> 
 #* And add the following: 
 <pre> 
 

 LoadModule cgi_module libexec/apache24/mod_cgi.so 
 LoadModule perl_module libexec/apache24/mod_perl.so 

 <Directory /usr/local/www/cgi-bin> 
   Options ExecCGI # This section tells apache which machines can access the interface. 
   # You can change the allow line to allow access from your local 
   # network, or comment out this region to allow access from all 
   # machines. 
 #    Require all granted ip 127.0.0.1 

   # You can change the authorization method to LDAP or another method 
   # besides htaccess here if you are so inclined. 
 #    AuthType Basic 
 #    AuthUserFile /etc/backuppc/backuppc.users 
 #    AuthName "BackupPC Community Edition Administrative Interface" 
 #    require valid-user 
 </Directory> 

 <Directory /usr/local/www/backuppc> 
   DirectoryIndex BackupPC.html 
   #<Directory /usr/share/backuppc/html> 
 #    Require all granted host example.org 
 </Directory> #</Directory> 

 Alias             /backuppc           /usr/local/www/backuppc 
 ScriptAlias       /BackupPC_Admin           /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin 
 </pre> 

 * And then enable the service to start at boot: 
 <pre> 
 echo 'apache24_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf 
 </pre> 

 * Remove the SUID bit from the backuppc perl script: 
 <pre> 
 chmod u-s /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin 
 </pre> 

 * Start apache24: 
 <pre> 
 service apache24 start 
 </pre> 

 * Now open http://backuppc.example.com/BackupPC_Admin in a web browser 

 h2. Resources 

 * https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/BackupPC

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