On 09/15/2015 10:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > kpolberg at olberg.name wrote: > >>>> 2. The graphical interface seems to be treated as an extra, >>>> but what other way is there of accessing BackupPC? >>>> Is there a CLI approach? >>>> If so, where is the list of transfer requests kept? > >> 2. You can do all operations through CLI, all of it is mentioned in the >> documentation. >> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#Step-7:-Talking-to-BackupPC > > Thank you for your response. > However, I don't believe this short section gives sufficient information > to configure and run BackupPC. > Basically, it just gives a way of finding out what is happening > while BackupPC is running. > (Also it finishes by advising you to use the GUI instead.) > > For example, what command would you give to tell BackupPC > that you want to back up /var/www (to choose a directory at random)? That goes in the config file (typically the per-PC one for this kind of setting, since you won't back up the same dirs on all clients). http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#Configuration-File The options are described in the following sections, that particular setting is described in the well named section: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#What-to-backup-and-when-to-do-it Really, the backuppc docs are pretty good.