MacOS client 2020

uroni · September 9, 2020, 4:25pm

Finally got that 2FA thing figured out after a lot of back and forth with support over several weeks. Result:

It doesn’t work because /Library/Application Support/UrBackup Client/var/urbackup/data isn’t created (I think). But after that it looks good.

uroni · September 9, 2020, 7:05pm

It doesn’t properly switch into dark mode ( https://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/18146 ). This seems to be improved with wxWidgets 3.1.y. Any reason why you emphasize using the stable wxWidgets version in the readme?

Moisie · September 10, 2020, 5:43pm

Woop - I apologise on behalf of the Apple community, and thankyou for your persistence!

Hmmm - it does work here - I can’t think why that wouldn’t get created, just as it was previously created inside the application bundle with the old version.

Yes - it didn’t build for me at all with the later wxWidgets. Since I found 3.0.5 stable worked, I haven’t tried again - I’ll put it on my list and report back. (Sorry - haven’t had much time to spend on this recently.)

(Incidentally there’s an outstanding PR for linking the required wxWidgets into the application, so no separate installation of it is required. )

uroni · September 10, 2020, 7:27pm

Sorry, didn’t see. The above build is statically linked (which would in this case also e.g. reduce the size). I updated the readme w.r.t. that.

Could be it was another issue… I had problems with / in the mac serial id (which is added to the default client name), but that problem was fixed server side.

Moisie · September 11, 2020, 7:39am

Ah brilliant - thanks!

uroni · September 11, 2020, 4:54pm

Build it with wxWidgets 3.1.y. Seems to work: final-signed.pkg (6.0 MB) Had to move min-version up to X 10.10.

uroni · September 11, 2020, 4:56pm

The “Access/restore backups” option in the menu doesn’t work for me (open web browser).

Moisie · September 16, 2020, 5:10pm

Hi,

Sorry - rather behind on my ability to test your updates at this end. However:

This is working on the build and OS (macOS 10.12.6) I’ve been focussing on.

Moisie · September 30, 2020, 2:20pm

Hi:

Finally had chance to run your build on a macOS 10.15 system.

I found that with your built package - but it looks fine on my (earlier) build script. Presumably something amiss with line 165 of Makefile.am_client ?..

Again, with your built package on my macOS 10.15 system, that is working here.

uroni · September 30, 2020, 6:10pm

Ok, added it to known issues in OP.

One cause could be that depending on the amount of data it needs to send to the server (depending on amount of users e.g.), it uses different methods to call the web browser:

github.com

uroni/urbackup_frontend_wx/blob/dev/TrayIcon.cpp#L599


      
          			params+="&is_file=false";

          		}

          		else

          		{

          			params+="&is_file=true";

          		}

          	}

          

          	if(!params.empty())

          	{

          		if (params.size() > 2000)

          		{

          			wxFileName tmpfn(wxStandardPaths::Get().GetTempDir(), wxT("urbackupclient_fileaccess.htm"));

          			wxTextFile file(tmpfn.GetFullPath());

          			file.AddLine("<html><head>");

          			file.AddLine("<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL='" + params + "'\">");

          			file.AddLine("<script type=\"text/javascript\">");

          			file.AddLine("window.location.href='" + params + "';");

          			file.AddLine("</script></head><body>");

          			file.AddLine("You will be redirected to your UrBackup instance. <a href=\"" + params + "\">Click here</a> if not.");

          			file.AddLine("</body></html>");

Buzzz · October 12, 2020, 9:15am

Hello,

I’m trying to set up an urbackup client on MACOS 10.14 and 10.15.
I can’t do it.
If I download the client from the web interface, it doesn’t work and if I download the versions of this post, I can’t configure it.

Could someone help me? Please help me

Moisie · October 12, 2020, 12:18pm

Hello:

Use the version linked in this post, and after installing it, run these commands in Terminal:

sudo mkdir /Library/Application\ Support/UrBackup\ Client/var/urbackup/data
sudo chown root:root /Library/Application\ Support/UrBackup\ Client/var/urbackup/data
sudo chmod 700 /Library/Application\ Support/UrBackup\ Client/var/urbackup/data

After that, you should be able to run and configure the client successfully. You will also have to give the client Full Disk Access in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Full Disk Access.

Please let us know how you get on!

Buzzz · October 12, 2020, 1:12pm

The installation of version 2.5.7beta is error free.

I executed these three command lines
"
sudo mkdir /Library/Application\ Support/UrBackup\ Client/var/urbackup/data
sudo chown root: /Library/Application\ Support/UrBackup\ Client/var/urbackup/data
sudo chmod 700 /Library/Application\ Support/UrBackup\ Client/var/urbackup/data
"
I changed the second one from root:root to root: OK
I gave access to the entire hard drive to Urbackup client. OK

I can’t set up the client. I have only 4 choices from the URBACKUP client icon.
Access Backups, about, status, uninstall.

sudo urbackupclientctl status
Password:
/usr/local/bin/urbackupclientctl: /usr/local/bin/urbackupclientctl: cannot execute binary file

sudo ./urbackupclientbackend
Segmentation fault: 11

Version MacOS 10.13.6 High Sierra

How do I configure it?

Moisie · October 12, 2020, 3:14pm

Hello:

First try a reboot; if that doesn’t help, then see if there is anything useful in the log file:
/Library/Logs/urbackup_client_backend.log

Thanks.

Buzzz · October 12, 2020, 3:20pm

I have already restarted and logs is empty.

Moisie · October 12, 2020, 3:33pm

Hi:

Hmmmm - not sure. I’ve got it successfully running on macOS 10.12 and 10.15 - but I haven’t specifically tried 10.13 yet. I’ll give it a go over the next few days…

Buzzz · October 13, 2020, 7:22am

To be more complete, I first installed the web interface client and then the client of this post. I’d like to uninstall them completely to redo a new install with the last one.

How do I uninstall all the files properly?

uroni · October 13, 2020, 5:00pm

Did you install the Linux client on MacOS? (That’d only work on Windows with WSL )

Buzzz · October 13, 2020, 5:03pm

I did install the right version. Macos Version

uroni · October 13, 2020, 5:04pm

What does file /usr/local/bin/urbackupclientctl say?