On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 10:03 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/13/2010 9:04 AM, John Doe wrote: > > > > One thing that made me not use BackupPC was that (from the doc): > > "The advantage of the mod_perl setup is that no setuid script is needed, > > and there is a huge performance advantage.... The > > typical speedup is around 15 times." > > > > Since I don't have a dedicated backup server, I did not want to mess up the existing apache configurations... > > You really don't spend any time in the web interface which is the only > thing affected by this. And it is fast enough when run as a normal CGI > anyway. Try it without mod_perl. You'd also have the option of running > backuppc as apache, but that is less secure if other web admins have > access to the machine. As a side note, the epel BackupPC package does NOT use mod_perl by default and the centos-testing package does use mod_perl by default. I run the centos-testing package (with mod_perl) and the epel package with and without mod_perl usage and see no practical advantage of using BackupPC with mod_perl in terms of time/cycle usage. So just use the stock epel package and you don't need to modify apache. Steve