BackupPC je „Open source zálohovací a data de-duplikační virtuální stroj“.

Nastavení BackupPC je velmi snadné:

1. Start the BackupPC Virtual Appliance
2. The virtual appliance is setup to use bridged networking, it should receive a dhcp address on your network
3. Log into the BackupPC virtual appliance
   • Username: root
   • Password: backuppc
4. Identify network IP address
   • ifconfig -a
5. Open you desktop browser and point it to http://ip_address/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin
   • Username: admin
   • Password: password
6. Create a user “backuppc” on the windows hosts that you want to backup. Backups are performed via SMB so the “backuppc” user should have read access to the C$, etc… shares.
   • Note: Don’t forget to set the users password
7. vi /b2d_target/conf/config.pl
   • You will need to modify 3 variables in this file
     • $Conf{SmbShareName} = ‘C$’;
       • These are the shares that you want to backup
     • $Conf{SmbShareUserName} = ‘backuppc’;
     • $Conf{SmbSharePasswd} = ‘backuppc’;
       • The SmbShareUserName and SmbSharePasswd should match the username and password that you created on your windows host.
8. Add hosts to backup.
   • vi /b2d_target/conf/hosts
     • Follow the syntax in the file – the use of IP addresses is OK
9. Reload the backup configuration file from the web ui
   • Select “Admin Options” and “Reload Config”
10. You are now ready to start a backup

For detailed usage documentation see: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

NOTE: [THIS IS OPTIONAL]

Finally the virtual machine is configured with a 300GB backup target disk (/dev/hdb2). This is Hard Disk 2 (IDE 0:1), if you need more space you should follow the following procedure:

1. Shutdown the virtual machine
2. Remove Hard Disk 2 and add a new larger virtual disk – See vmware docs for more detail
3. Login as root
4. /etc/init.d/backuppc stop
5. mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdb1
6. mount -a
   • verify that the new device is mounted on /b2d_target
     • df -k
7. /etc/init.d/backuppc start

Zdroj: http://gotitsolutions.org/2007/01/15/open-source-backup-and-data-de-duplication-virtual-appliance-2.html