8 Add The Windows System notebook As A Backup Client

To make backups of Windows systems using smb, we must share the folder that we want to back up. In this case I want to backup the whole C: drive, so I right-click on it in the Windows Explorer and go to Sharing. As share name I specify C.

Next, on server1.example.com, I add a line for notebook to /etc/backuppc/hosts (I do this as root). In this case I use falko again as the user. If you use a different username than before, make sure you create it on the system and for the BackupPC web interface, as shown in chapter 5.

server1.example.com:

vi /etc/backuppc/hosts

[...]
falko-desktop   0       falko
notebook    0       falko
#localhost   0       backuppc

Then create the file /etc/backuppc/notebook.pl and add all options that are different from the ones in /etc/backuppc/config.pl. In this case we add $Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb';. Our share name is C, so we put $Conf{SmbShareName} = 'C'; into it as well as the username and password for the Windows share:

server1.example.com:

vi /etc/backuppc/notebook.pl

$Conf{SmbShareName} = 'C';
$Conf{SmbShareUserName} = 'username';
$Conf{SmbSharePasswd} = 'password';
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb';

Then restart BackupPC:

server1.example.com:

/etc/init.d/backuppc restart

Then reload the BackupPC web interface again. You should now find notebook in the list of clients:

You can start the first backup of notebook manually or wait until BackupPC starts it:

That's it already for Windows clients.

Happy backupping! ;-)

9 Links

• BackupPC: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net
• BackupPC Documentation: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html