We have two hosts – one with BackupPC installed (I will call it “backuppc_host”), and other to backup (“backup_host”)… On backup_host Install rsync apt-get install rsync Create a user for backup: adduser rbackup On backuppc_host Become backuppc user: su – backuppc Create a ssh  key pair: ssh-keygen Copy public key to backup_host (replace 2222 with [...]

This is the way I set up BackupPC with lighttpd on lenny… Install package: apt-get install backuppc In this process, apt-get will automatically install apache2 package (if not already installed), but if you don’t need it, remove it with: apt-get remove apache2* apt-get autoremove Edit file /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf and add “mod_cgi” to server.modules section. Add “default.cgi” [...]