Rename a host in BackupPC

Follow the below steps to rename a host in BackupPC.
1. Stop BackupPC service :

service backuppc stop

2. Login to the configuration folder

cd /etc/BackupPC

2. Change the host file to the corresponding one :

vi hosts

*change old_host to new_host*

3. Rename the pl file in pc folder :

cd pc

mv old_host.pl new_host.pl

4. Make the changes in the backup location (I assume your backup is storing in the location /backup):

cd /backup/filesystem/pc/

mv old_host new_host

5.Start Backuppc service:

service backuppc start

6. Login to the backuppc console and make sure that the changes are replicated there.

 

Enjoy 🙂

Get notification after every successful backup from BackupPC

Edit the configuration in BackupPC is as below :

Edit config –> Backup Settings –> User commands -> DumpPostUserCmd as
/theg/email.sh $xferOK $host $type $client $hostIP $share $XferMethod $sshPath $cmdType
where /theg/email.sh is the custom script.

Below are the contents of the email.sh script :

 

#!/bin/bash
# script to send simple email
# Email To ?
EMAIL=”your_email_address”
# Email text/message
EMAILMESSAGE=”/tmp/emailmessage.txt”

# Grab the status variables
xferOK=$1
host=$2
type=$3
client=$4
hostIP=$5
share=$6
XferMethod=$7
sshPath=$8
cmdType=$9

# Check if backup succeeded or not.
if [[ $xferOK == 1 ]]; then
        STATUS=”SUCCESS”
else
        STATUS=”FAILED”
fi

# email subject
SUBJECT=”[BackupPC] $STATUS for host: $client”

# Email text/message
echo “Filesystem backup for $host $STATUS” > $EMAILMESSAGE
echo “” >>$EMAILMESSAGE
echo “Type: $type” >>$EMAILMESSAGE
echo “Client: $client” >>$EMAILMESSAGE
echo “Host: $host” >>$EMAILMESSAGE
echo “Host IP: $hostIP” >>$EMAILMESSAGE
echo “Share: $share” >>$EMAILMESSAGE
echo “XferMethod: $XferMethod” >>$EMAILMESSAGE
echo “sshPath: $sshPath” >>$EMAILMESSAGE
echo “cmdType: $cmdType” >>$EMAILMESSAGE

# send an email using /bin/mail
/bin/mail -s “$SUBJECT” “$EMAIL” < $EMAILMESSAGE

Enjoy 🙂

Backuppc : Forbidden

I’ve got Forbidden error while accessing the BackupPC machine via browser. Here is what I did :

I started off checking the logs. Here is what I got from the apache error log :

client denied by server configuration: …………………/BackupPC_Admin

So this is clearly something permission issue.

I have checked the configuration file :

/etc/httpd/conf.d/BackupPC.conf

and added the correct entry in :

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 127.0.0.1
allow from 192.168.20.0/24

Save and restart the apache service

Now BackupPC  is loading fine in browser….

Enjoy ! 🙂