hi, welcome to this video
In this video I will show you how to create a backup server with openmediavault nas
This way you can back up the entire operating system or data
This is my openmediavault nas server and has docker and portainer preinstalled
I will deploy a new container first
To build the backup server I use urbackup
You go to the home page of urbackup and see the instructions to install it on Docker
Set the image to uroni/urbackup-server
Next is to set the port for urbackup
TCP ports used are 55413 and 55414
Only one UDP port used is 35623
With urbackup you can backup and restore over the internet if set up properly
Next set up the network as host
Restart and policy set to unless stop
The setup is complete, you click deploy the container
After about a minute, the container deployed successfully
You check the log to make sure there are no errors
Thus there is no error with the urbackup container
To access the urbackup management website, open a new tab and enter the nas server ip address and port 55414
By default urbackup doesn't have a login password but I recommend you to create one
But with the default container creation like this, the storage capacity of the urbackup server will be very little so you need to edit the path to the larger storage of the nas server
To do that you edit the volume of the urbackup container
On the openmediavault nas server I will merge 3 hard drives into one for large storage capacity
Specifically, in this example, I combined 2 1TB hard drives and 1 500GB hard drive
After merging the hard drives I created a new shared folder
The new shared folder is called urbackup and uses storage pooled from 3 separate hard drives
Total storage capacity is about 2.2 TB
This is the path to the newly created folder, we will use this path to set up the urbackup container
With volume /backups you set bind
Then you copy and paste the path here
After updating the path you deploy the container
The new container will replace the old urbackup container
Open the log and make sure no errors occur
You refresh the urbakup management web page and make sure no error message appears you have successfully built your own backup server on the nas server
So how to back up a Windows computer
Please join me in the next part of the video
You go to the urbackup homepage and download the client installer for Windows computers
A small installation file is downloaded
You open the installer and click Next a few times to complete the installation for the client
You may be asked to restart your computer to complete the installation
I recommend that you follow the instructions to avoid errors when backing up
The Windows computer will automatically detect the server in the local network and the computer will be backed up for the first time
As in this example the Windows client automatically finds the server whose ip address is 10.11.32.226
By default, partition C contains the Windows operating system that automatically backs up to the urbackup server
You can easily monitor the backup process, backup speed
While the computer is back up, you can use your Windows computer normally
urbackup doesn't interrupt your work while backing up
You go to the openmediavault management page and check the change in the available free space on the hard drives
And you will see if the backup files have been saved to the folder you specified
If you want to know how to back up a specified file or folder then watch at the end of this video
Next I will show you how to restore your computer from a backed up image
To do that you need a usb stick with at least 1GB capacity
Here I have an 8GB USB stick
Next go to urbackup homepage and download urbackup recovery cd
There are many utilities to help you create urbackup usb recovery stick, but I am used to using rufus tool
I also recommend you to use the balenaEtcher tool because it's faster
The nice thing about using rufus is that you don't have to install it on your computer
After getting the usb recovery urbackup stick you plug it into the computer you want to restore from the backed up image
You connect the computer you want to restore to the same local network as the urbackup server
In other words, you connect the Windows computer you want to restore to the same local network as the openmediavaul nas
Start Urbackup restore
There are two recovery options for you to choose from: the graphical interface and the command line interface
A graphical restore is an easy choice for most people
Let's start the recovery
You are asked to set up your keyboard and time zone, but you can skip this step
Your computer will automatically find the urbackup server in your local network
urbackup server found, it will ask for username and password
Because I want to keep my data safe, I have set up a password for the urbackup server
Here you select the client, backup version you want to restore
Restore, the data on your computer's hard drive will be destroyed
Depending on the backup image size and your local network speed, the recovery time is fast or slow
So my computer is restored, I will restart the computer
You can now remove the USB stick and set up your computer to boot from the hard drive
Windows computer has successfully restored from backup image on urbackup server
You can also easily review your backup and restore history on urbackup's management page
What if you only want to backup certain files?
urbackup can help you with that
On the urbackup client, add the path to the directory where the files you want to backup are stored
urbackup can back up all or only the changes
With backup files you can download directly on the urbackup management page or restore back to a folder on the client machine
urbackup can backup and restore over the internet
Hope you are interested in urbackup so I have the motivation to show how to backup and restore over the internet in the next video
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