I recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 (non server) but desire to run some
server type aps. In looking for a centralized backup solution I settled on
BackupPC. Not being a unix expert I figured having the GUI would help.
Well I have a few issues!
The good:
- I can access the webpage from the Ubuntu box
- I can access the webpage from windows boxes in the house
- First attempt at install I was able to start a backup (however it
ignored my "only" list) of a windows box. The desktop/server needed some
work as it looks like ssh and some other items are NOT installed yet, but
Windows boxes first!
The bad:
- I had to reinstall (see below) and am starting from scratch..
- Ok.. I can't even change backuppc password! I figured I would su over
to backuppc but that doesn't even work. *How do I change the password
on Ubuntu?* Here is what I get. I figure that the reason I get the
read/write is due to the permissions on the file. It looks like all the
directories were setup at install to be owned by "backuppc - BackupPC" and
group "www-data"
travis@TAS-Server:~$ su backuppc
Password:
su: Authentication failure
travis@TAS-Server:~$ htpasswd /etc/backuppc/htpasswd backuppc
htpasswd: cannot open file /etc/backuppc/htpasswd for read/write access
travis@TAS-Server:~$
- Ubuntu seems to install (without a prompt) the data directory at
/var/lib/backuppc (owner: backuppc / group: backuppc). *I really want
to change this* as that is NOT where I reserved space. I have a mount
at /data01 on my system that is a 1TB drive I setup FOR my backups.
(previous server backups ran on clients and sent them here)
- I did read some of the things I found and it looked like in my
version I could just change TopDir (which is NOT in the GUI) but when I
tired, I broke the web GUI. My guess is that I changed the file
using root
and I then had a permission issue.
- This really gets me back to, *how should I be changing these files?*
Seems I am logged in as a "user" and have no way to login as
backuppc user
to modify the files and keep the permissions the same. If I do them as
root (sudo) I think things go bad as it changes owernship on me.
Thanks for any and all help. Once this is setup I know it is going to
"just work". Just need to learn these base issues and don't want to screw
things up. I did try to add my user to the backuppc group, but the group
only has access permissions. Before I go messing things up (again) looking
for advice.
Travis
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