Re: [BackupPC-users] Server Host

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"Joao Rechena" writes:
> 
> Greetings, I'm using BackupPC  version 1.5.0 for almost a year now, and I 
> have it working perfectly :) 
> 
> My question is very simple. I have Backuppc running on the machine which has 
> apache, so I can admin, for anywhere in the network. But the maching gets 
> high load averages, so I want to migrate the backuppc to other machine 
> inside the network, the problem is that the maching inside the network 
> doesn't have apache, is it possible to have the backuppc, the whole prog not 
> the data dir, on one machine and the cgi on another ?
> If yes how do they comunicate ? i have nfs on both machines. 

You can run the CGI interface remotely.  You need to export the
BackupPC data directory via NFS to the machine running apache.
BackupPC_Admin communicates with the BackupPC server based on the
settings of $Conf{ServerHost} and $Conf{ServerPort}. You need to set
$Conf{ServerPort} to a positive number, typically more than 1024.

To keep things simple the path to the BackupPC directory should be
the same on both machines.  Also, BackupPC should be installed in
the same place on both machines (since BackupPC_Admin needs access
to the lib/BackupPC modules).

On the other hand, installing apache is pretty easy.

Craig