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Installation

Elkarbackup v1.3 installation has been tested on the next systems:

  1. GNU/Linux
    1. Debian Stretch 9.0
    2. Debian Jessie 8.0
    3. Debian Wheezy 7.0
    4. Ubuntu 18.04
    5. Ubuntu 16.04
    6. Ubuntu 14.04
  2. Docker

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After the installation

Supported Systems

Debian Stretch (9.0)

1. Install these recommended packages:

apt install debconf php php-cli rsnapshot apache2 mysql-server php-mysql acl bzip2 php-xml libapache2-mod-php libapache2-mod-php7.0 libssh2-1 mysql-client

2. Configure MySQL root password:

$ mysql_secure_installation

3. Add package repository key:

wget -O - http://elkarbackup.org/apt/archive.gpg.key | apt-key add -

4. Add elkarbackup repositories:

echo "deb http://elkarbackup.org/apt/debian stretch main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elkarbackup.list

And update package index files:

apt update

5. Install Elkarbackup:

apt install elkarbackup rsnapshot

Debian Jessie (8.0)

1. Install these recommended packages:

apt install debconf php5 php5-cli rsnapshot mysql-server php5-mysql acl bzip2

Note: remember MySQL admin password!

2. Add package repository key:

wget -O - http://elkarbackup.org/apt/archive.gpg.key | apt-key add -

3. Add elkarbackup repositories:

echo "deb http://elkarbackup.org/apt/debian jessie main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elkarbackup.list

And update package index files:

apt update

4. Install Elkarbackup:

apt install elkarbackup rsnapshot

Debian Wheezy (7.0)

1. Install these recommended packages:

apt-get install debconf php5 php5-cli rsnapshot mysql-server php5-mysql acl bzip2

Note: remember MySQL admin password!

2. Add package repository key:

wget -O - http://elkarbackup.org/apt/archive.gpg.key | apt-key add -

3. Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://elkarbackup.org/apt/debian wheezy main

And update package index files:

apt-get update

4. Install Elkarbackup:

apt-get install elkarbackup

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

1. Install these recommended packages:

apt install debconf php php-cli rsnapshot apache2 mysql-server php-mysql acl bzip2 php-xml libapache2-mod-php libapache2-mod-php libssh2-1 mysql-client

2. Configure MySQL root password:

$ mysql_secure_installation

3. Add package repository key:

wget -O - http://elkarbackup.org/apt/archive.gpg.key | apt-key add -

4. Add elkarbackup repositories:

echo "deb http://elkarbackup.org/apt/ubuntu bionic main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elkarbackup.list

And update package index files:

apt update

5. Install Elkarbackup:

apt install elkarbackup

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

1. Install these recommended packages:

apt install debconf php php-cli rsnapshot apache2 mysql-server php-mysql acl bzip2 php-xml libapache2-mod-php libapache2-mod-php7.0 libssh2-1 mysql-client

Note: remember MySQL admin password!

2. Add package repository key:

wget -O - http://elkarbackup.org/apt/archive.gpg.key | apt-key add -

3. Add the elkarbackup repo:

echo "deb http://elkarbackup.org/apt/ubuntu xenial main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elkarbackup.list

And update package index files:

apt update

4. Install Elkarbackup:

apt install elkarbackup

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

1. Install these recommended packages:

apt-get install debconf php5 php5-cli rsnapshot mysql-server php5-mysql acl bzip2

Note: remember MySQL admin password!

2. Add package repository key:

wget -O - http://elkarbackup.org/apt/archive.gpg.key | apt-key add -

3. Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://elkarbackup.org/apt/ubuntu trusty main

And update package index files:

apt-get update

4. Install Elkarbackup:

apt-get install elkarbackup

Fedora 24

1. Install these required packages:

$ dnf install httpd php mariadb-server rsnapshot zip php-mysql php-xml php-process

# Start Apache and Mysql server
$ systemctl start httpd
$ systemctl start mariadb

2. Configure MySQL root password:

$ mysql_secure_installation

3. Configure PHP Timezone

$ sed -i "s/;date.timezone =.*/date.timezone = Europe\/London/g" /etc/php.ini

4. Run ElkarBackup installer:

$ bash -c "$(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elkarbackup/elkarbackup/master/install/eb-installer.sh)"

# Optional: set it to start automatically at boot time
$ systemctl enable mariadb
$ systemctl enable httpd.service

CentOS 7

1. Enable REMI repository (PHP 5.6 or higer required)

CentOS 7 provides PHP 5.4, so we need to upgrade it to PHP 5.6 or PHP7

yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
yum install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
yum install yum-utils
yum-config-manager --enable remi-php56

More info: http://rpms.remirepo.net/wizard/

2. Install the required packages:

$ yum install bzip2 httpd mariadb-server rsnapshot zip unzip which git php php-mysql php-xml php-process

# Start apache and mysql server
$ systemctl start httpd
$ systemctl start mariadb

3. Configure MySQL root password:

$ mysql_secure_installation

4. Configure PHP Timezone

$ sed -i "s/;date.timezone =.*/date.timezone = Europe\/London/g" /etc/php.ini

5. Run ElkarBackup installer:

$ bash -c "$(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elkarbackup/elkarbackup/master/install/eb-installer.sh)"

# Optional: set it to start automatically at boot time
$ systemctl enable mariadb
$ systemctl enable httpd.service

Docker

ElkarBackup docker repo in Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/elkarbackup/elkarbackup/

Demo: asciicast

After the installation

Now you can access to Elkarbackup using the following URL:

Default user: root
Default password: root

Note: you can also use the address http://elkarbackup but first you need to add your IP/name to your DNS/hosts file.

After the installation, is highly recommended:

  • Change root user's password and email address (Users -> Show -> Users -> "root")
  • Configure notification email server and protocol (Config -> Manage Parameters)
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