Client confirmation on non gui

Restore
#1

Hi,

I am testing urbackup and it looks pretty good.

I have urbackup server installed on windows and client is installed on ubuntu minimal install (no gui). when i try to restore using server web interface it keeps waiting for client confirmation and i dont know how can i confirm it on non gui based client.

Below is the activity log

09/11/16 21:22 INFO Starting restore of path “var\LICENSE.txt”. Waiting for client confirmation…
09/11/16 21:27 ERROR Restore was inactive for 5min. Timeout. Stopping restore…

Waiting for client confirmation on headless client installation
#2

You can either start it via urbackupclientctl restore-start on the client, or set RESTORE=server-confirms in /etc/default/urbackupclient.

Restore data (folders and files) jobs does not work on Linux and MAC OS clients
#3

and if there is no file found named /etc/default/urbackupclient as in my clients is on debian? Where to look for this setting?

#4

Hi Uroni, where can i find this setting on a windows client?
Thanks
Roberto

#5

auto solved,
it’s inside the urbackup client folder. It’s called args.txt
args.txt (198 Bytes)

#6

Is it possible to manage this setting withn server and push it to clients? Or do I need to adapt the clients manually?

#7

Is it possible to manage this setting withn server and push it to clients?

If you mean this option RESTORE=server-confirms. No you can’t change it for urbackup server. This is done for security reasons. So that a potential attacker could not erase files on clients by running recovery.

Or do I need to adapt the clients manually?

Yes.

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