How to Configure BackupPC in Debian

BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, WinXX and MacOSX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.

1.apt-get update
2. aptitude install backuppc rsync libfile-rsync-perl libfile-rsyncp-perl par2 bzip2
Let installation process to add an alias for /backuppc.
Installation creates username backuppc and password. The password can be changed by running
htpasswd /etc/backuppc/htpasswd backuppc
To put all individule conf files into /etc/apache2/conf.d, copy /etc/backuppc/apache.conf to
/etc/apache2/conf.d/backuppc.conf and delete the line "Include /etc/backuppc/apache.conf" from the file httpd.conf
The backup file will go to the directory backuppc in /var/lib, it might be deleted then link it another place for
whatever reason such as missing disk space

3. All backuppc configuration files are in /etc/backuppc.
4. Configure
config.pl,
hosts,
test.pl (shared folder data)
localhost.pl (/etc, /DISK2/data, /DISK2/test_data, /var/svn, /home/httpd/twiki, /home/script,
/var/lib/mysql/webcalendar, /var/lib/mysql/achievo )
5.for example touch test.pl (shared folder UserData )
6. email to which the notification is sent is set in config.pl