New Server - Old Clients

Server
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Hello,
I had working Urbackup Server in my local network.
A lot of windows clients was backing up everyday, but finally my server stopped working and I lost whole machine.

Now I have new server running on centos, but still old clients waitng for old server show up

And the question is, is it possible to put data from server_idents.txt to server database to make clients think that’s old server and start backing up normally, without deleting that file at all clients separately?

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If you have a backup of the database/configuration (by default it’s on) you can restore the original UrBackup config.

If you don’t, you must start from scratch and reinstall clients.

3

Thanks for answer.

Unfortunately i lost access to old btrfs, because of multiple power losses, tried everything,
#btrfs rescue
#btrfs scrub
etc.

So i have to start one more time : - )

I will check another way, I think deleting server_idents.txt from urbackup folder will work.
Tommorow I’ll have some info about that

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Hi, It’s working

cd “C:\Program Files\Urbackup”
del server_idents.txt
del new_server_idents.txt
net stop UrBackupClientBackend
taskkill /IM UrBackupClient.exe
UrBackupClient.exe
./UrBackupClient.exe

Just for sure i putted so many unnecessary commands, cause I’m sending that “script” to differents Windows systems remotely

5

Good to know, but what have you achieved if you don’t have the server backup? Just avoided the client reinstallation?

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Yes Bro,
It’s tytanic work to reinstall f.e. 100 clients in network, so I sent my poor “script” mentioned above, and just watched my clients showing up :slightly_smiling_face: