I’m a big fan of urBackup, but there are times when it’s documentation is frustratingly vague for relatively simple tasks. I recently spent an entire morning trying to get a client instance working and I simply could not find out how to perform a clean uninstall. After much digging through forum and discord posts here’s what I used.

This is a headless server, so everything is done via SSH as a superuser (su).

Firstly, run the included uninstaller:

/usr/local/sbin/uninstall_urbackupclient

In my experience, the uninstaller does not remove client configuration. If you are attempting a clean reinstall, this can cause a multitude of problems if it is not manually removed. Simply delete the folder.

 rm -Rf /usr/local/var/urbackup

You may also want to delete the urBackup defaults if they still exist.

rm -Rf /etc/default/urbackupclient