Was looking for something quick and dirty to supplement local backups for a client and gave your stable release a shot. Really great software so far. Easy to configure and get up and running. Client installation is a snap. Had a little trouble in the beginning. I really wanted to install over Debian, tried two stable releases of 7&8, but the installation failed at apt-get install urbackup-server every time. Did a little research and tried a few tweaks, but as I said I was looking for something really quick, so I had to move on to Ubuntu. I’ll spin up another install of Debian when I have the time and see if I can narrow down the problem, but other than that great software. My money is on a screw up with the repository, but we’ll see. Just seems odd that it would fail on the Debian side since they both run on damn near the same kernel.
urbackup is afaik not present in the debian repos…
would be crystal clear if someone would read the installation hints for debian ;-.)
wget http://limitingfactor.urbackup.org/Server/2.0.11%20beta/urbackup-server_2.0.11.0_amd64.deb
dpkg -i urbackup-server_2.0.11.0_amd64.deb
done
Yep, tried that too, ran into all kinds of problems unpacking it, and getting it to run in a stable manner. If I’d had more time to mess with it, I would have, but like I said, this was a time sensitive problem. I’ll never understand for the life of me why people put more resources into Ubuntu than Deb. Debian has always been more stable under fire than Ubuntu. When I get the chance to play with it some more I’ll get the kinks worked out, tweak the kernel specific to this application, and build a distro for the whole thing that I can post somewhere.
Here is what I’ve recently used without trouble on Debian 8.3 and it worked right out of the gate:
cd /tmp
wget https://limitingfactor.urbackup.org/Server/2.0.10%20beta/urbackup-server_2.0.10.0_amd64.deb
dpkg -i urbackup-server_2.0.10.0_amd64.deb
apt-get install -f
Mine failed to load the web interface on 8.3
Was anything else installed on the Debian box that might have conflicted? Mine was a minimal install + SSH server + standard system utilities.
Yep, fresh install + ssh. Even enabled root access to ssh to do the install. Still had issues. It’s more bizarre hearing that others have gotten this to run without a problem. The only thing out of the box that I’m doing is running this as a hyper-v virtual off a Windows 2012 server, so maybe something there. I still have the VHDs from the failed attempts, so when I get time I’ll pick through those and see what I can find. It’s worth noting that this would be the first time I have ever run into an issue with Deb strictly due to being in a virtual environment.
I really want to spin this up on an ARM box just for grins and giggles to see how it performs. I already have a pi but I have an odroid c2 on the way so we’ll see what happens there.