Step 1: Update Your System

Before starting the installation, it’s important to update your system to ensure that all packages are up to date. Run the following commands:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

This ensures that your Debian 11 system is fully updated with the latest security patches. Keeping your system updated is essential whether you’re deploying urBackup on a local server or a UK Windows VPS.

Step 2: Install urBackup Server

To install the urBackup Server, first add the urBackup repository to your system. Run the following commands to add the repository and import the GPG key:

echo "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/uroni/Debian_11/ /" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/urbackup.list
wget -nv https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:uroni/Debian_11/Release.key -O Release.key
sudo apt-key add - < Release.key
            

Now update your package list and install urBackup Server:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install urbackup-server
            

After installation, start and enable the urBackup service:

sudo systemctl start urbackupsrv
sudo systemctl enable urbackupsrv
            

The urBackup Server will now be running and ready to manage backups. This setup works whether you're using a local network or hosting urBackup on a Windows VPS hosting UK environment.

Step 3: Access urBackup Web Interface

urBackup provides a web-based interface for managing backups. To access the interface, open a browser and navigate to your server’s IP address on port 55414:

http://your-server-ip:55414

You will be prompted to set an administrator password when accessing the web interface for the first time. This interface allows you to configure backup settings, monitor client activity, and manage storage.

Whether you're using urBackup for local backups or deploying it on a VPS Windows Servers platform, the web interface makes managing backups straightforward.

Step 4: Install urBackup Client

To back up client machines, you need to install the urBackup Client on each machine. For Debian-based systems, you can install the urBackup Client by adding the same repository and then running the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install urbackup-client
            

Once installed, you can start the urBackup Client service:

sudo systemctl start urbackupclientbackend
sudo systemctl enable urbackupclientbackend
            

For Windows systems, you can download the urBackup Client from the official urBackup website. After installing the client, it will automatically connect to the urBackup Server for backup management.

Whether you're backing up clients locally or over a network hosted on a Windows Virtual Private Server hosting platform, this step ensures that your client machines are connected and ready for backups.

Step 5: Configure Backup Settings

After installing the urBackup Client, you can configure the backup settings through the urBackup Server web interface. You can schedule file and image backups, set backup retention policies, and monitor backup progress.

To configure the backup settings for a client, navigate to the web interface and select the client machine. From here, you can configure the backup type (file or image), the frequency of backups, and other settings.

This configuration ensures that your backups are tailored to your requirements, whether you're securing data on a local network or on a Windows VPS Italy server.

Step 6: Monitor and Manage Backups

urBackup provides detailed logs and monitoring tools that allow you to track the status of backups across your network. From the web interface, you can see which clients have completed backups, the amount of data backed up, and any errors that occurred during the process.

These monitoring tools ensure that your backups are functioning correctly, whether you're running urBackup locally or hosting it on a Windows VPS hosting UK server.