URBackup - Free, Open Source, Self Hosted backup server and client for Windows and Linux!

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Backups are important for so many reasons. I have had backups save my bacon more than once, and I have also learned the hard way how important backups really are. Data loss is no joke, and in this day and age there is truly no reason to have data loss.
Today, I want to cover a really great backup tool that is open source, and not too difficult to get setup. URBackup (like You Are Back Up! - get it?) is a really terrific tool boasting both a Server and Client installation that then makes your backup server (where you store your data) talk to your client machines (where you are backing up your data from) with some nice auto-discovery features built in.
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=== Timestamps ===
00:00 Beginning
00:09 Introduction to URBackup
04:30 Thank you my Patrons on Patreon, and my Subscribers on KZfaq
05:05 Install URBackup Server via Docker
14:25 Check our Install of the Server
14:45 Overview of the URBackup Server Interface
22:32 Setup a Windows 10 Client
26:10 Install a Linux Client
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@emanuelwieland 2 жыл бұрын

AWESOME and informative contant as always. Note: For getting your ID you can type the short command »id« instead of looking at the passwd. Great stuff - Thank you very much!

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

Great tip! thank you!

@jim7smith 3 ай бұрын

Aha! I learned something I did not previously know! Thanks!

@sanjeev2003 2 жыл бұрын

There was no good videos regarding this and I didn't have enough time to test it. Thank you for showing if this is a good fit for me or not.

@itgeeky6313 2 жыл бұрын

I couldn't find many videos on Urbackup at all...

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad I'm able to help. It's a really cool application set.

@farhanahmad5934 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for such an awesome video. Nice details 🙂

@AwesomeOpenSource Жыл бұрын

My pleasure 😊

@akki9047 Жыл бұрын

Very useful tool sir.Thanks for existing.

@AwesomeOpenSource Жыл бұрын

My pleasure.

@frankthetechtank 2 ай бұрын

I've been looking for a way to backup my homelab, particularly my nextcloud and plex. Thank you for this video!

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 ай бұрын

You are very welcome. URBackup has actually gotten even better since this video, so it's super powerful.

@itgeeky6313 2 жыл бұрын

This is exactly the kind of backup solution that I've been wanting for a long time. Are you able to do a follow up video, showing how to restore files and an image? Thanks

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

Let me see what I can come up with.

@itgeeky6313 2 жыл бұрын

@@AwesomeOpenSource cheers.

@filiecs3 2 жыл бұрын

You can also use the docker container of a client in your docker-compose files to back up your docker volumes, it's super handy!

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting.

@jeytis72 Жыл бұрын

Could you give us more details about how to, please?

@lordchive8944 2 жыл бұрын

Looks good!

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

It is!

@rudypieplenbosch6752 2 жыл бұрын

This will be a great solution for my window clients, thanks for showing us. Would be nice if android devices can be backed up as well.

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

I’ll see what I can find, but don’t think there’s anything for Android in URBackup, but I’ll take a look.

@rudypieplenbosch6752 2 жыл бұрын

@@AwesomeOpenSource I have searched the Internet but I could not find it, it would be a great adittion. But thanks for sharing your tutorial.

@valterschmaltz 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that, that is new for me. I am now thinking about all the different ways I could do a backup. I have been using Syncthing, also duplicati. Also have samba, NFS, FTP/sftp and nextcloud setup, which could also be used for synchronization. I'm thinking about cloud storage for off site backup. So many options. Bear in mind I run this at home, using docker too.

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

You bet. No such thing as too many backups.

@bigchew3149 2 жыл бұрын

Cool ! I do about the same thing at home but i would like a off sight but really always just kinda Well i just Dont Trust Any Cloud Service if im not the host..lol. But i Always like to try & talk to like minded folks !

@valterschmaltz 2 жыл бұрын

@@bigchew3149 I have the same feeling, even though I work with cloud lol. I know Google cloud gives 300$ to use on their platform, I might use that to save my backup for few years.

@gmansi Жыл бұрын

@@bigchew3149 " i just Dont Trust Any Cloud Service if im not the host" Why not if you can encrypt the backups you upload?

@carnby24 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! Thanks a lot. This is just great..it will be the greatest if you can do a tutorial on how to restore those backups as well...

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I may do one in the future.

@carnby24 2 жыл бұрын

@@AwesomeOpenSource Thank You in advance

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

@@carnby24 You bet

@kevinhughes9801 2 жыл бұрын

Useful video thank you

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

Hope it helps

@larrybahr489 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. I always learn a lot. Does this offer a way to browse backups other than the latest one? E.g. If you were doing a full system incremental backups every day could you use the web GUI to restore a single file from a week ago (meaning their would have been 7 incremental backups and you only want to restore the single file not the whole drive)? If so I would love to see how that works. Also would be great to see you restore a system since that is the real reason you would want this. Thank you so much for taking the time to make these great videos!!!

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

I see, in the Backups tab, each machine I am backing up, and if I click on the machine name, it then takes me to a page where each backup is shown with date and time, etc. From there you can take actions. I can continue clicking down into the levels to get to each file in the Downloads folder, then list out the versions of that file that are backed up as well.

@larrybahr489 2 жыл бұрын

@@AwesomeOpenSource thank you for checking. I couldn't find any good screen shots of that feature. That is ideal!

@mohamed-alsharkawy 2 жыл бұрын

. I just had me 500GB of my laptop bricked (not working) which had on it more than 1000 web app that took me 18 months of development. I learned the hard way like you said. 😭

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

I am super sorry to hear that, it's the worst, I know from experience. Any luck with data recovery options like dd or ddrescue?

@robinskoglund4295 2 жыл бұрын

Always watching your vids. Could you possibly make a vid about some blogging-platform deployed on IIS? Have tried both Bludit and HTMLY bot cant get any of them to work and neither can I find a step-by-step guide for any of them.

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

I’ll see what I can find. Any reason you want IIS specifically? Will Docker not work for you on Windows?

@guitaristtom 2 жыл бұрын

Is there a way to stop the broadcasting and/or put some sort of authentication for clients on the URBackup server? It seems ideal for my use case, except for if I get friends or family on to it, and then they come over. I don't want their machines backing up to my server automatically.

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

I don't think their stuff would just backup automatically. You could have a friend of family member test this with a small folder on their own system first, then have them come over and see if ti backs up to yours somehow.

@fbifido2 2 жыл бұрын

@22:36 - you downloaded the windows client off the internet and not off your docker web interface, does it not offer the client at 192.168.7.51:55414 ? @23:58 - it shows the client before you say "you will move on" Can they make the client ask for the server address? and also allow us to change it when we need to?

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

Yep, I just wasn't paying attention. Later I did download the client from there as well. In my case the issue turned out to be a VPN that was setting it's own firewall, and wasn't turning it back off after the VPN was disconnected.

@IEnjoyCreatingVideos 4 ай бұрын

good video Thanks for sharing it with us😎JP

@AwesomeOpenSource 4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@aundrewilson2297 2 ай бұрын

I learned this hard way 🤧

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 ай бұрын

Indeed, realizing you don't have a backup when you really need it is a nightmare like no other.

@williamguru Жыл бұрын

Hello all, any advice on getting started in IT without going through the help desk? I don't do well communicating on the phone but do just fine in person.

@AwesomeOpenSource Жыл бұрын

A lot of places start you on the helpdesk because it gives you an opportunity to be exposed to the daily issues, and learn the basics of the location / network, etc. But, if you're looking to avoid that as an IT person, you might think of starting your own business. Setup a home lab, and "create" your own issues, then work through solving them. The troubleshooting process is important for success. That's my 2 cents on it...i'm sure others have thoughts as well.

@mohamedatef8424 2 жыл бұрын

Nice and Great as usual , But i have question ? its only for virtual only ?!

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

No, you can use it on bare metal, or however you feel like installing it. I just use virtual machines for the simplicity of demo.

@mohamedatef8424 2 жыл бұрын

@@AwesomeOpenSource I men its backup any pc physical or vm work on both?

@quentineugenewatson9506 2 жыл бұрын

Can you backup a headless system? Or does the system need a GUI for the client side?

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

URBackup uses a CLI set of commands on Linux clients, so if your headless system is a Linux machine, you should be able to set it up with no issues.

@bigchew3149 2 жыл бұрын

Always good Info to know but I have ben using Next Cloud for years & ownCloud for a while ! I just like NextCloud better IMO but i do have 2 Unraid Servers Running & a FreeNas all Dual Xeons so i play around with a lot of different Dockers & Vm's an docker is so so much easier to set up than any cmd line ! it was a little more challenging to set up on FreeNas jail than in a unraid Docker But The Docker is like 3-4 Clicks & Done ! I use it for a auto/Live back up of my phone/Ipad Data.. wouldnt them be Way Easier for a noob trying to get started ? ?

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

I've covered NextCloud in the past, but I makea differentiation between a Syncing system, and a backup. A backup keeps historical data with archives of things you may delete from your main system, whereas a syncing service will delete things across systems as you delete them, and so on, thus keeping things in sync. I think NextCloud now has some archive function, but for backups, I prefer a dedicated backup solution. But that's just me. If what you're doing works for you, then definitely keep it up.

@jim7smith Жыл бұрын

Hi Brian.... I noticed early on that you have a type in the yml file you were entering the data directory and you had "dataa" instead of "data" Not sure if you ever fixed it. Normally you point out such things in the editing process....I might have missed it.

@AwesomeOpenSource Жыл бұрын

I'm sure I fixed it and just cut it out later. I try to be mindful to point out mistakes when I make them, but sometimes I miss them too when I edit a few weeks after recording, that may have happened here, or I may have just missed it.

@ImriPaloja Жыл бұрын

Greate Vid! How you thought about creating a Bacula Tutorial?

@AwesomeOpenSource Жыл бұрын

Thank you, and I'll eventually get to omre great backup options.

@mikileft Жыл бұрын

Hi, im setting a simple server-client urbackup but eventhought my server recognizes my client everytime i try to do a backup it comes with "Failed backup run" on the server's panel, any clue?

@AwesomeOpenSource Жыл бұрын

No, but there should be logs you can look through to see if there is a message to shed some light on what's happening.

@golvellius6855 3 ай бұрын

I learned this the hard way😢😢😢

@AwesomeOpenSource 3 ай бұрын

I'm sorry to hear that, but we've all been there my friend.

@txtaz74 2 жыл бұрын

You have come a long way from the guy that forgot semicolons back in the day!😁

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

I still hear your voice in the background, “I swear if it’s a semicolon, you are buying dinner!” Hahahaha

@knowledgeispower17 2 жыл бұрын

Can you tell me what does it mean -x -f -in command to add client backup path command, sudo urbackupclientctl add-backupdir -x -f -d /media/? Thanks. :D

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

Just do the command 'man urbackupclientctl' in your terminal, and you can read what each option is for.

@knowledgeispower17 2 жыл бұрын

@@AwesomeOpenSource Thank you, i run command "urbackupclientctl add-backupdir --help" and now i now. :D

@famgucci7125 Жыл бұрын

so if my hard drive died, I would be able to recover my all my stuff if I backup with this?

@AwesomeOpenSource Жыл бұрын

Any backup is better than no backup at all. Whenever you make a backup, the absolute most important thing to do, is validate that you can access the data should you ever need to, and that the data appears fine. That said, yes, this would be a great way to backup your data off of your laptop.

@wcmedic69 2 жыл бұрын

You can also just do "id brian" from a prompt for that info and its cleaner

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

Nice, learning something new everyday.

@aperson1181 Жыл бұрын

If you just backup to a USB drive. How to use this program? Do I just need a client?

@AwesomeOpenSource Жыл бұрын

This is really made for network backup, but I think to use a USB drive you might find other options more useful. Just depends on your goal. Are you using the machine the USB is connected to as a backup point for other machines on the network, or just the one machine?

@MohammedOmarMohammed Жыл бұрын

Great video. thanks alot. I wnat to change Backup storage path to proxmox packup server storage, How?

@AwesomeOpenSource Жыл бұрын

Let me look into it. Would you mind jumping over to discuss.opensourceisawesome.com and posting this question?

@dg-hughes Жыл бұрын

Where are the Windows files/image being backing up to, what path or device?

@AwesomeOpenSource Жыл бұрын

You set those paths in the configuration for the server. The files are backed up to the server.

@ericespino7361 2 жыл бұрын

In 11:36 there is an error. In volumes, instead of . /dataa, it should be. /data

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, yeah, I missed it originally in the video, but fixed it later for production.

@i--dont--know Жыл бұрын

hello. i do not have a server :(. Can i have UrBackup server and UrBackup client together to backup my windows PC? Thanks

@AwesomeOpenSource Жыл бұрын

The idea here is to backup the data on a separate device. If you're doing local backups there are tons of great options for that. Check out Kopia github.com/kopia/kopia

@chazzber 5 ай бұрын

is it possible to backup running vms with urbackup?

@AwesomeOpenSource 5 ай бұрын

I'd say no. it's not a snapshotting tool. You could create the snapshot, then backup the snapshot using URBackup.

@wayneseymour1 6 күн бұрын

I'm a newbie to creating backups and would like to know if my idea would work using UrBackUp . I have two machines, a windows 10 desktop with (3) three internal nvme ssd drives, a windows 10 Laptop with (2)two nvme internal drives and (2)two nvme external drives. My idea is to use a mini computer running windows 10 or 11, with a large (maybe a 5T ssd) drive for holding backups, the OS(10/11) on a 128GB nvme drive. populate the mini PC with the windows version of Urbackup server, the Desktop and Laptop with the Urackup client version, and do my backup of files from both machines. I'm not interested in the speed of the backup or stuff like that. I just want to be able to backup certain files and folders on a scheduled basis automatically. would my idea work?

@wandermaus4571 2 жыл бұрын

I can't get it running with a linux client. The client shows up in the webinterface and I did setup a backup dir. When I try to start a backup, it just never starts. I also tried forcing it over the cli, but there I get an timeout after a certain amount of time. Any idea what could cause this problem?

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

No, I haven't run into this... but only using it for a couple of Linux clients. so far it's worked well. Are you just running it over the local network, or over the internet?

@wandermaus4571 2 жыл бұрын

@@AwesomeOpenSource Over the local network. I did reinstall the client again and then restarted the docker container. Somehow it started the backup now and it seems to work flawless.

@PrzemekSkweres Жыл бұрын

Nice soft but it looks like no longer maintained. Linux clients don't work. Do You know some good alternative?

@AwesomeOpenSource Жыл бұрын

You might look into Brg Backup and some of it's GUI interfaces.

@PrzemekSkweres Жыл бұрын

@@AwesomeOpenSource thanks, I will try. It will be great if You make some video 🙂

@AwesomeOpenSource Жыл бұрын

Borg Backup is on my list...just an ever growing list.

@Glatze603 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this interesting video, but is it planed to upgrade your micro? The sound is really bad. Thanks a lot :-)

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

I’m still working on my audio editing skills. I get a bit too close sometimes, too far others, but I’m working on it.

@Glatze603 2 жыл бұрын

@@AwesomeOpenSource too close or too far would be compensated by a higher quality microphone

@joseguerrero1603 Жыл бұрын

is posible to sync with google drive?

@AwesomeOpenSource Жыл бұрын

That I don't know. I don't use Google for anything other than my spam email account these days. I would think you could set the Google Drive folder as the backup location or source if you want to though.

@servertech6727 2 жыл бұрын

Is there any other opensource backup app for standalone (not network) pc ?

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

I think you're asking about local backup only? And are you asking for Windows specifically (with PC), or Linux / cross platform?

@servertech6727 2 жыл бұрын

@@AwesomeOpenSource You are right I mean local (ex. I will install it to my laptop and I will create images with it) backup for example windows. but I won't say no for cross platform :)

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

@@servertech6727 Amanda is one I've seen in the past, and it looks promising. I'll try to do a video on it at some point, but go check it out, as it may suit your needs better.

@servertech6727 2 жыл бұрын

@@AwesomeOpenSource I checked amanda but it is also server/client type backup.

@idriskautsar4895 Жыл бұрын

Do you have a tutorial about elkarbackup, if not please make one

@AwesomeOpenSource Жыл бұрын

Let me look into it. It looks pretty awesome!

@idriskautsar4895 Жыл бұрын

@@AwesomeOpenSource i hope you make some tutorial, thank you

@denystry Жыл бұрын

Hello can you make video how to make SSL for URBackup?

@AwesomeOpenSource Жыл бұрын

Let me look into it. I'll see what I can do. Is the purpose to run the backup across the open internet?

@denystry Жыл бұрын

@@AwesomeOpenSource also but when you go to managment web page its over http. i access the server by ip address, can we use nginX to make a proxy to local addresses? to show https. Thanks

@philsponsel3824 2 жыл бұрын

for those who are here to find out more about the settings tab internet: these settings have been skipped, so you can skip this video

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, Ididn't need to set it up. If you want to access / setupu the URBackup over the internet, you need to adjust the settings on that tab. I would suggest, however a VPN over just these settings.

@philsponsel3824 2 жыл бұрын

@@AwesomeOpenSource Hi & thanks for the quick answer! i tried it without VPN and couldn't get it working it always throwed a broadcast error wich i could not get rid of. after 4 hours i just switch back to my old solution (duplicati) and made it work by switching from SFTP to a S3 compatible storage. now it works like i want it to! (S3 storage locally hosted with minio). Have a great day!

@KeithDavey2014 2 жыл бұрын

The one in 321 refers to one copy must be located offsite.

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

Oh. I had always heard it differently, but that is definitely an important rule.

@KeithDavey2014 2 жыл бұрын

use the command 'id' as the user your logged in as

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

Super useful, and thank you.

@idriskautsar757 3 ай бұрын

did you succeed for windows client ?

@AwesomeOpenSource 3 ай бұрын

Yes, it works for Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

@AuroraPixel6 2 жыл бұрын

Has anyone used this to backup DB servers?

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

I suppose you could if you took a full snapshot.

@CyberCrowBR 2 жыл бұрын

I'm using Bacula

@r3tr0n17 2 жыл бұрын

no ssl in url?

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

I'm setting it up to only run locally, so no Ssl for me.

@r3tr0n17 2 жыл бұрын

@@AwesomeOpenSource no i meant, urbackup website no longer has ssl .. could you confirm ?

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

@@r3tr0n17 No, when I went to it it is https

@sohangeducation6366 2 жыл бұрын

@ Awesome Open Source I want to talk to you about business proposal

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

Reach out via discuss.opensourceisawesome.com, and send me a direct message, I'm @ mickintx

@tenerife_sea 10 күн бұрын

This is confusing.. or am I just not tech savvy enough?

@AwesomeOpenSource 9 күн бұрын

I don't know. What's confusing for you?

@geoffsmith82 2 жыл бұрын

You keep pronouncing it... U R Backup... but I think it is ment to be pronounced Your Backup!

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

It may just very well be “your backup”. Hmmm. I said “you are” because I was reading each capital as a word. Interesting.

@Kannulff 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty superficial review.

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry it didn't have enough detail. I tend to show you how to install and run, then the basics of usage. After that I want you guys to dig in and discover what else it has to offer. What else would you like to have seen. Perhaps it will help me in the future.

@louabney 2 жыл бұрын

Better to define, describe or give examples of each setting. Reading the setting labels and values is useless to your audience, like me. We can read...

@AwesomeOpenSource 2 жыл бұрын

I know you can read, but my videos are already quite long, and not every setting will apply to everyone. I want to leave something for you guys to dig into, and tinker with as well.