Proxmox and backuppc

[Brian Read]

I want to use backup pc runing on the proxmox host to backup some of my VMs.

I tried a "apt-get install backuppc" and it seemed to run through fine, although the one error I can see is this:

"adduser: Warning: The home directory `/var/lib/backuppc' does not belong to the user you are currently creating.

chown: cannot access '/var/lib/backuppc/log/*': No such file or directory"

However I am now getting the nightly backuppc emails, and it seems to be running, but I am unable to access the configuration webpage at:

http://<my proxmox>/backuppc

Actually when I access that it tries to download something, so I guess the cgi-bin stuff is not setup correctly.

Attaching the full install log.

Asking here in case there is something peculiar before wading in to backuppc support.

 

[samontetro]

Why don't you use a VM or a LXC container to run your backuppc server on your proxmox host ? I'm not sure it is a good choice to run this on the host.

 

[Brian Read]

Yes I could do, but I want to backup to an attached USB drive, and I have discovered that passing the USB drive through to a VM seems to write to the drive very slowly, so up to now I've just VXDumped the VM direct, but really want some incremental backup daily.

 

[samontetro]

Sorry I can't provide help, I've no experience with BackupPC running on Debian, I only use Debian in proxmox context and all my linux (including backup server) are RedHat flavors.

 

[Brian Read]

Sorry I can't provide help, I've no experience with BackupPC running on Debian, I only use Debian in proxmox context and all my linux (including backup server) are RedHat flavors.

thanks anyway , hopefully there is someone out there who is using backuppc on proxmox or debian.

 

[fpausp]

Have you ever been successful with backuppc on proxmox?

 

[Dark26]

You can mount the drive locally on the proxmox server and add the storage to the cluster.

 

[fpausp]

I would like to install backuppc on proxmox, that was my question...