Restore image over the internet

Restore
1

Is it possible to restore images over the internet? I’ve tried selecting ‘Enter server IP/hostname’ inputing my public ip address but the Urbackup restore wont find the server over the internet. Feature request?

2

Yes, feature request.

Except for if you forward the restore clients ports into the internet :wink:

3

Thanks for the tip.

I tried to port forward the client ports specified in the documentation but it still won’t find the server. I even put the client in DMZ to open all ports to it to no avail.

The server ports I have forwarded are TCP 55413-55415.

What else do I need open?

Also what do I enter for the server IP? Just IP, or do I need the urbackup port as well?

4

You are actually doing that?

All the client ports in https://www.urbackup.org/administration_manual.html#x1-8600010.3 need to be forwarded (maybe except 35621 TCP). Server needs only 35623 UDP forwarded. Enter just the IP/hostname.

5

You better believe I’m doing that :slight_smile:. With a gigabit pipe why not image computers and allow restore from offsite.

Works great with the extra server port. Haven’t done a restore yet, but the client found the server and I was able to login. Thanks for the assistance.

BTW is the restore CD open source for me to compile? I would like to change a few things around to make the offsite restore of images a little quicker.

6

It’s a bit tricky. Here are instructions which need an update https://urbackup.atlassian.net/wiki/display/US/How+to+build+the+restore+cd

You can get a up-to-date restore client by running ./update_restore.sh from GitHub - uroni/urbackup_backend: UrBackup - Client/Server Open Source Network Backup for Windows, MacOS and Linux . If all the programs this needs are installed this should also run on other live linux distributions.

7

When will there be a feature to allow restoring an image over the internet. I have an AWS server running URbackup and an S3 bucket mounted to it for my backups (which is awesome by the way) but all I can do is make backups. I want to restore the images I backed up but I cannot.

8

Please vote for my feature request. Uroni has already done so and I appreciate that but I am curious how many other people are interested in the feature.

Thanks

9

Uroni,

Am I understanding you and the docs correctly that the Azure server will need port 35623 open for discovery?