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duplicity is an open source software to backup data incrementally in an encrypted format. It can save/upload the backup to local or remote destination. It is written in python and uses librsync.

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duplicity: UnsupportedBackendScheme: scheme not supported in url: dpbx:///

I'm trying to use duplicity to backup a directory to DropBox in Debian Stretch. However, duplicity gives me the error: UnsupportedBackendScheme: scheme not supported in url: dpbx:/// I have verified that…
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Duplicity 0.7.10 fails after upgrading librsync in Ubuntu 14.04

I've spent a few hours trying to configure Duplicity to perform automated remote backups to a Google Drive. At this point, it's safe to say that I'm in my own private dependency hell. Using the version of Duplicity that came with my distribution…
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Prevent duplicity to download all manifests

I need to restore most recent duplicity backup into the clean VM. Backup interval is 1 hour. The oldest backup should be 6 months. And every time I restore backup into clean VM duplicity downloads all the manifests and signatures. And it takes a lot…
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sftp backups with duplicity fail

I'm using duplicity on debian wheezy, which comes with version 0.6.18 as standard package. I also tried version 0.6.24 from wheezy-backports. I want to use sftp as backend, but if I run: duplicity --full-if-older-than 1M --exclude /run --exclude…
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Cannot restore duplicity backup

I've created a backup of my home folder, to a remote system, using duplicity 0.6.26: duplicity --no-compression --no-encryption . scp://... while being in the home folder. Now I seem to be unable to restore the backup. I've copied everything from…
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Duplicity backup to S3: BackendException

I'm trying to configure my Duplicity installation to backup to an Amazon S3 bucket. I keep getting a BackendException error with no further details. EDIT: I've removed my Duply configuration from this question in an effort to isolate the issue more…
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How can I speed up my Duplicity backup?

I need to perform onsite backups of hundreds of gigabytes from a few Xen VMs to some storage available on a dedicated server in the same network, with a Gigabit connection. The data is mostly MySQL data - I use Percona XtraDB Cluster - backed up…
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How does Duplicity check for modifications (mtime or checksum)?

How does Duplicity determine if the local version of a file has been modified since the last backup? Does it only look for a different mtime/size etc., or does it actually check for modified content, by verifying some kind of content checksum (MD5…
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Duplicity and Google Drive

Is it there a way to make duplicity backups to Google Drive? As far as I understand, WebDav and FTP are not supported by Google Drive. But maybe there is an extension to duplicity in the works?
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Duplicity restore reports "Invalid SSH password" when I'm using a private key for connection

I'm testing the restoration of a backup with duplicity 0.6.15. I can login to my backup server just fine using ssh and sftp using the following commands and my private key: ...sftp root@client:~# sftp -oPort=7843 backupUser@192.168.x.x Enter…
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Problems restoring file backed up on Windows using Duplicati to a Linux server running mono

TL/DR version: Mono + Duplicati.commandline.exe restore etc. etc. spits this out for several files regardless of what I try. I am able to list sets, list files in said sets, even do a verify, but each time i do a restore of any kind, i get errors to…
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Restore files from certain increments using Duplicity

Given the following backup sets ... Found primary backup chain with matching signature chain: ------------------------- Chain start time: Tue Jun 21 11:27:26 2011 Chain end time: Tue Jun 21 11:27:59 2011 Number of contained backup sets: 2 Total…
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NIC bandwidth usage graphing as percent (not kbps/mbps)

I would like to validate a certain thought with you guys. Assuming that: The device whose bandwidth I am measuring is an internal, Linux-based, router. If a NIC is configured to 100mbps, the network is at least 100mbps (that is, the NIC's speed…
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Most cost efficient way to backup Subversion data to S3?

I'm looking at using S3 as an offsite backup repo for my Subversion database. When I dump my SVN database, it's about 10 gigabytes. I would like to avoid the charge of uploading that data repeatedly. The anatomy of this large file such that new…
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Why does Duplicity allow a new symmetric passphrase on incremental backups?

I am new to Duplicity and trying to test it as a new backup tool. However, I have found that it permits incremental backups with new symmetric passphrases which then causes the backup to be unrecoverable. For instance, this is my test…
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