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I finally got BackupPC working under Centos-7.1 after several hours of pain. I had been running it for several years under CentOS-6, and probably CentOS-5, but there seem to me to have been several new issues that arise with CentOS-7. In my experience, the official documentation on this, <http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html>, is more or less useless unless you have a very long

...of running BackupPC as root? Why do you want this? It's not required to run backuppc as user root. > 2. The graphical interface seems to be treated as an extra, > but what other way is there of accessing BackupPC? > Is there a CLI approach? There are some CLI applications available, BackupPC_tarCreate for example to restore file from the command line. regards Ulf

...ng from backuppc to root. I don't recall any other application taking this route ? >> 2. The graphical interface seems to be treated as an extra, >> but what other way is there of accessing BackupPC? >> Is there a CLI approach? > There are some CLI applications available, BackupPC_tarCreate for > example to restore file from the command line. I take it then that there is no CLI method of setting up and running BackupPC ? Incidentally, I don't recall ever changing the user and group under which BackupPC is to run when setting up BackupPC under CentOS-6. Maybe this was done au...