magixus/urbackup-client repository overview

⁠UrBackup Docker Client

Source files for the Docker image magixus/urbackup-client at https://hub.docker.com/r/magixus/urbackup-client/⁠.

⁠Introduction

The UrBackup solution has a comprehensive list of featuers and supported systems. The official website states that

This Docker image runs a UrBackup client v2.4.10. Note that it does not run the UrBackup server. Please see https://www.urbackup.org⁠ for more information on the complete UrBackup solution.

⁠Starting the Docker container

if the server is installed on local machine and you want to backup a local directory, you may start the container by running

docker run \
  -d --name urbackup-client \
  -p 35621:35621 -p 35622:35622 -p 35623:35623 \
  -v /path/on/host:/backup \
  -h <your-client-computer-name>
  magixus/urbackup-client:2.4.10

This will start the UrBackup client and automatically connect to any UrBackup servers on the local network. The necessary ports are forwarded from the Docker container. By default, the container will backup files found in /backup and all its sub directories. Mounting a host directory to that path enables the client to backup the files. Note the -h <your-client-computer-name> is used to recognize the host on urbackup server web interface

In order to connect the client to a server outside of the local network, a number of additional parameters as environment variables are needed:

docker run \
  -p 35621:35621 -p 35622:35622 -p 35623:35623 \
  -v /path/on/host:/backup \
  -e COMPUTERNAME=<your-client-computer-name> \
  -e INTERNET_MODE_ENABLED=true \
  -e INTERNET_SERVER=<your-server-name-or-ip> \
  -e INTERNET_AUTHKEY=<your-client-authkey> \
  magixus/urbackup-client:2.4.10

There is also an optional parameter INTERNET_SERVER_PORT that defaults to 55415.