Hi all, i was looking for a backup system for small mixed environment (linux and windows) to install on a centos 5.1 server and a tryed to use backuppc 3.1.0 from the testing repository, mainly becouse I have already succesfully used it in the past on a fedora server and because it perfectly matches my requirements.

This is my expirience:

Before starting I carefully read this useful documents:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2403 http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1299

http://marc.info/?l=centos-devel&m=117145576710647&w=2

The first installation worked fine: I configured the repository in yum and I succesfully downloaded and installed backuppc and all the dependecies.

I configured apache to run as backuppc user instead of apache and the server started working.

The server on wich i'm running backuppc is a general purpose server and it's not dedicated to the backup job, so for me is a big issue running apache as the backuppc user.

Studying the above mentioned documentation I solved the issue by this way:

1) I downloaded the SRPMS version of backuppc 2) I manually applied the modification suggested by ScratchMonkey to the spec file (the diff file proposed on the bug tracker didn't work out of the box becouse it refers to a previus version of backuppc, but I was easily able to manually apply the modification). 3) I recompiled the RPM and I succesfully installed it. 4) I configured apache to work in suexec mode (using the sample conf file published on the bug tracker).

The server is now working fine and I havan't any performance issue on the web intrface (but i have very few clients).

My suggestion is to use the suexec mode which I find very easy to implement and without collateral effect on other web application published from the same apache server.

I hope this will help.

Marco

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