Noob question about data storage

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Hello, I’m quite new to UrBackup and I’m looking forward to setup a new VM with UrBackup to backup a few Windows FileServers.

My question is the following: If I set the urbackup storage directory to a different physical drive than where the vm is installed, and for some reason the logical unit where urbackup is installed crashes (for example the drive fails), is there a way to recover the backup information? or do i have to recreate the whole thing in a new urbackup installation?

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It creates a nightly database backup to the backup storage folder. You can also install the client on the server itself and backup C:\Program Files\UrBackupServer.

To recover from loosing C: you would need to reinstall and restore the server identiy (server_ident.key, server_ident.priv, server_ident.pub) and the database backup_server.db and backup_server_settings.db (plus -wal file if present) plus the clientlist_*.ub files if you have them.