These are my notes on the BackupPC setup on Ubuntu 12.04. This post is not a good read, feel free to skip it.
Installing BackupPC
sudo apt-get install backuppc
Be sure to note the password that is setup during the install, this can later be changed by running the following command.
htpasswd /etc/backuppc/htpasswd backuppc
You can find the web admin area for BackupPC at http://ipaddress/backuppc. Most everything you would need to do can be handled for the web admin area except for completely removing a server from backups. In order to do that, the server must be removed from the hosts and then the files must be deleted from backuppc file system.The files are located in /var/lib/backuppc/pc.
To add hosts directly to the hosts file
sudo nano /etc/backuppc/hosts
To see the current config:
cat /etc/backuppc/config.pl
To restart backuppc service (to reload configs for example):
/etc/init.d/backuppc (start|stop|restart|reload)
To run the BackupPC nightly process manually:
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255 To remove a backuppc PC Directory and everything in it rm -r /varl/lib/backuppc/pc/pcname