# GUI client for a remote ubuntu server
**URL:** https://kopia.discourse.group/t/gui-client-for-a-remote-ubuntu-server/361
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 8, 2021, 12:07pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/gui-client-for-a-remote-ubuntu-server/361 "2021-04-08T12:07:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@nexar](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/nexar)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2021, 12:07pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/gui-client-for-a-remote-ubuntu-server/361/1 "2021-04-08T12:07:41Z")
I would like to use Kopia to backup my ubuntu server running on Rackspace. The server doesn’t have a gui interface but is there a way of using ssh or similar to connect a gui interface on my laptop to control backups on the ubuntu server?
Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@kwag](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/kwag)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/gui-client-for-a-remote-ubuntu-server/361/2 "2021-04-08T16:46:04Z")
Run copia as a server on your Rackspace VPS, then connect from anywhere to [http://your-rackspace-ip-address:51515](http://your-rackspace-ip-address:51515)
Make sure you set up user/password on parameters when you run kopia as server mode.
You then create your initial snapshots on the command line on your vps.
Then you can remotely control schedules, policies, etc. from anywhere via web interface.
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### Author:  [@nexar](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/nexar)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2021, 8:15am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/gui-client-for-a-remote-ubuntu-server/361/3 "2021-04-09T08:15:55Z")
@kwag thanks very much for your help. I will try this out.
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### Author:  [@jkowalski](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/jkowalski)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/gui-client-for-a-remote-ubuntu-server/361/4 "2021-04-09T18:57:41Z")
Just one note - make sure to use use TLS and strong password in this case.
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### Author:  [@enboig](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/enboig)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/gui-client-for-a-remote-ubuntu-server/361/5 "2021-04-19T14:02:04Z")
For remote connections I would use SSH and port redirect.
Maybe using kopia in scripts and cron is more suitable for servers; personally I haven’t tried it (servers already backing up using restic in my case).