Headless ubuntu client not backing up

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I followed this tutorial to setup a ubuntu client and stipulated the headless option. The “File Backup Status” column lists “No paths to backup configured”

Within the settings tab on the server I have “Separate settings for this client” is set for the client in question. Additionally “Default Directories to backup” is set to “*”.

What do I need to do to create a complete backup of this machine running ubuntu?

Thanks so much!

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Try setting the default directories to “/”.
You’ll probably also want to exclude some common paths that aren’t really files as such - “/proc;/dev;/sys”. Depending on your needs, “/tmp” is another one you may want to add to the exclude list.

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@tin, thanks for the response. I did try that, unfortunately it still won’t back up. Thoughts?

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Hello,

for me this worked:

sudo urbackupclientctl add-backupdir -x -f -d /home

To view which directories are being backuped:
urbackupclientctl list-backupdirs

Kind regards
Markus

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Listing the backups helped to track down an error that didn’t make sense. Apparently I had one path set to “*”. Once I removed that it seems to be working now. If it continues to fail, I’ll check back.

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Does anyone have any idea how to exclude a directory from the command line? That seems to be the next hurdle I face.