[CentOS] BackupPC is not easy to setup

Fri Sep 18 19:11:23 UTC 2015
Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net>

Bowie Bailey wrote:

> On 9/18/2015 8:39 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:

>> Incidentally, I've been running BackupPC on my CentOS-7 server
> The GUI config editor is just an alternative to hand editing.  It uses
> the exact same files.
> 
> Keep in mind that the config files are stored separately from the
> backups.  On my system, the backups are under /data/BackupPC and the
> config files are under /etc/BackupPC.

You are quite right.
The info about directories to backup is in the file
/etc/BackupPC/pc/helen.pl .
I had been looking for a file called config.

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Timothy Murphy  
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin