Conclusion
So there you have it, your first taste of free sweet enterprise grade backup. Backuppc is a great piece of software, and if you couldn’t tell there is so much more. Use this guide as a icebreaker to the software, because there’s much more tuning and tweaking you can do.
Once again I highly suggest you jump over to the Backuppc website and read through their documentation now that you’ve gotten your feet wet.
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Also, as always feel free to leave any questions you might have in the comments and I’ll do my best to help you if you get stuck somewhere along the way.
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You are correct, I used to root account to demonstrate because it will allow you access to everything on the system.
But the general idea here is you can use any account with ssh access and proper permissions to access what ever it is exactly you are backing up.
For example, if you are just backing up your user home folder, you can use that user’s account instead of the root account. It all comes down to what permission’s are set for what ever you are attempting to backup.
Another thing worth mentioning is if you use a regular user account, you might be able to read pretty much anything. But when attempting to restore files it will likely fail because you don’t have write permissions.
So in a nutshell, you can use ANY account you like. Just make sure that account has proper access to the things you are actually backing up.
Hope that helps clear things up.
First thing I’d try is to see if apache2 is actually running, if it is in fact running check to see that the apache virtual host is configured properly.
My gut feeling is for some reason your virtual host isn’t being recognized, but without any error logs it’s tough to say.
Let me know if you can post some more information and I’ll try t help point you in the right direction.