Linux headless client

general discussion
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Hi all,

I am still new to urBackup but i like the main concept and i wish to use it for my environment. Just my home server with several VM’s and a few computers nothing fancy. I am missing some things (and that mosly likely because i am reading the documentation wrong), But still i hope it’s allowed to ask some questions here.

I have several linux servers. One i have install the server. This one works (i can use the webinterface). And now i am trying to connect a headless linux client. I downloaded the package. Compiled it as headless as described http://www.urbackup.org/client_debian_ubuntu_install.html. I used the headless flag.

I can start the client giving me

2014-06-22 23:29:28: Creating SOCKET...
2014-06-22 23:29:28: done.
2014-06-22 23:29:28: Server started up sucessfully!
2014-06-22 23:29:28: Looking for old Sessions... 0 sessions

Once it was connected and ended up on the server but now i am trying to make a backup it won’t connect. No clue what i am doing wrong here.
Also does the client has it’s own webinterface? I don’t think some but sometimes i read the documentation/comments and i get doubt. Also the client is not starting in daemon mode either.

Thanks for reading

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I think you are starting urbackup_client. You should be using the start_urbackup_client wrapper script.

The client does not have a web interface, only the wxWidgets GUI.

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Thanks for the replay. Ill try to get it working. Maybe ill write a beginner guild when i have it running :smiley:

Is there any reason why there are underscores in the command? It could be just me but i haven’t found many linux command’s using a _ (also for the parameters)?

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You’re right. And it starting with “start_” instead of “urbackup…” makes it hard to find as well. hmm.