While I have been a bit quiet lately, I have been working on two new projects one is a BackupPC virtual appliance. An agentless backup and recovery system that also de-duplicates. There is a lot of discussion around technologies like Data Domain, Diligent, EMC/Avamar, and Asigra, this virtual appliance provides similar functionality for FREE. I am also working on a web based UI for this appliance to simplify setup and sync integration for replication.
Setup of the BackupPC virtual appliance is quite simple.
- Start the BackupPC Virtual Appliance
- The virtual appliance is setup to use bridged networking, it should receive a dhcp address on your network
- Log into the BackupPC virtual appliance
- Username: root
- Password: backuppc
- Identify network IP address
- ifconfig -a
- Open you desktop browser and point it to http://ip_address/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin
- Username: admin
- Password: password
- Create a user “backuppc” on the windows hosts that you want to backup. Backups are performed via SMB so the “backuppc” user should have read access to the C$, etc… shares.
- Note: Don’t forget to set the users password
- vi /b2d_target/conf/config.pl
- You will need to modify 3 variables in this file
- $Conf{SmbShareName} = ‘C$’;
- These are the shares that you want to backup
- $Conf{SmbShareUserName} = ‘backuppc’;
- $Conf{SmbSharePasswd} = ‘backuppc’;
- The SmbShareUserName and SmbSharePasswd should match the username and password that you created on your windows host.
- $Conf{SmbShareName} = ‘C$’;
- You will need to modify 3 variables in this file
- Add hosts to backup.
- vi /b2d_target/conf/hosts
- Follow the syntax in the file – the use of IP addresses is OK
- vi /b2d_target/conf/hosts
- Reload the backup configuration file from the web ui
- Select “Admin Options” and “Reload Config”
- You are now ready to start a backup
For detailed usage documentation see: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
NOTE: [THIS IS OPTIONAL]
Finally the virtual machine is configured with a 300GB backup target disk (/dev/hdb2). This is Hard Disk 2 (IDE 0:1), if you need more space you should follow the following procedure:
- Shutdown the virtual machine
- Remove Hard Disk 2 and add a new larger virtual disk – See vmware docs for more detail
- Login as root
- /etc/init.d/backuppc stop
- mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdb1
- mount -a
- verify that the new device is mounted on /b2d_target
- df -k
- verify that the new device is mounted on /b2d_target
- /etc/init.d/backuppc start
Please download and try this virtual machine, and let me know if you find any issues with the documentation. Enjoy!
[tags]virtual appliance backup recovery backuppc linux vmware windows agentless[/tags]
This looks very good, perhaps a OpenVZ template is nice to, then it can be a virtual appliance for the free virtualisation technologie Proxmox.
Love the idea. I see this original is 2007. Is there any newer file that might include any upgrades of late from backuppc ?
Thanks.
Jay
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