configuration on a headless server

[GuitarBilly]

I plan to transfer some existing restic backups on a headless linux server into npbackup.
The npbackup configuration file is normally created and updated via npbacup-gui on a screen.

My configuration plan is to

1. Prepare the configuration on another machine which has a display, then transfer that npbackup.conf to the headless server and use it.
2. Set the cronjobs by looking at how it is exported by npbackup into /etc/cron.d/npbackup

Any risk or shortcoming to do it this way?
Should I do it differently?

[deajan]

Indeed, you can setup a configuration file on GUI an use it later on CLI, there aren't any differences in interpretation.

I myself generally configure one of the example files with prometheus and upgrade server settings, than just change some stuff in the repo / group config and re-use it over and over again.

[enboig]

I am interested in installing it on a headless server; but I am missing some points.

• Does it need a systemd service to run? Or just cron?
• How can I use Viewer from a remote machine?
• Just copying the 3 binaries to /usr/local/bin is enough? There are more files in tar.gz files
• Do I need to set a generic config folder (/etc/npbackup or anything else) to store configuration? Or it should be in /root/.config folder?