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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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How to backup my files secure and properly

Duplicity & rsnapshot helps me backup my files to remote FTPs server. I can recover file if my server harddisk failed. But if someone hacking my local server and he can get all remote server access info from cron scripts, so hacker can remove the…
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Duplicity no longer works with Amazon S3

Duplicity 0.6.10 doesnt seem to like the s3+http protocol. I keep getting the following error message. unsupportedbackendscheme: scheme not supported in url: s3+http:// I've tried with 0.6.09 as well and no luck. I finally got down to…
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Duplicity Errno 2 - no such file or directory

I am trying to setup a script for backing up a linux box to a CIFS share. I manually mounted the CIFS share and created a few test folders - OK I then ran duplicity manually with a rather simple command to begin with to make sure things work and…
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Why can my cron job not find a specific command?

I am using duplicity to create nightly backups of my server over FTP. I wrote a script that does both a local and remote backup and logs the output results. When I run this script as the root user, it executes just fine. However when I set it as…
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Duplicity fails to run w/ python 2.3

I tried running the latest code and went as far back as 0.6.07 and I keep getting the following error message when running duplicity. Any ideas how to fix? Tell me I dont have to upgrade to Python 2.4 [root@sierra duplicity]# duplicity Traceback…
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Duplicity local cache during remove-older-than operation

Let me preface this by saying that I really know nothing about Duplicity. The person in my organisation that has the knowledge has gone on leave and as usual, while he's away, unusual things happen. I got an alert today that one of our servers had…
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What happens if an owner on duplicity restore does not exist?

Similar to this answer, I would like to know how duplicity behaves if an owner of files / directories does not exist on restore? And what happens if the owner does not exist on backup? By non-existence I refer to the absence of an entry in…
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duplicity scp (ssh) working with IP-address, NOT with domain?

I'd like to use duplicity to create an encrypted remote backup. SSH-keys are in place and work: sudo -u ssh-user -p 41111 domain.myfritz.net opens a terminal on the remote host. Login is password-less since I created these logins in order to…
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Duplicity /etc/ backup locked files issue

I am supposed to make System-Backups of the linux servers my employer is running. I tried rsnapshot and settled for duplicity, as it seems to be updated more frequently. I need backups of /etc/, /bin/, /usr/, /lib/ & /home/. Obviously, when i try to…
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How to restore subdirectory of a duplicity backup?

I have a duplicity backup script running under Ubuntu 18.04 which has backed up the contents of my /etc directory like this: duplicity --archive-dir=/home/bkp/.cache /etc rsync://backup.host::/bkp/etc I now want to restore the /etc/postfix…
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Split duply/duplicity backup into subdirectories

I have been running backups with duply for a while now. This works great so far, but recently I started getting the error message Attempt 1 failed. BackendException: Bad status code 507 reason Insufficient Storage. I still have enough storage…
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Back up using Duplicity through SCP with key-based authentication

I want to back up my system to a remote server through SCP using Duplicity. However, I use key-based authentication. How could I do this?
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duplicity: Is it possible to create each increment based on last full and not last increment?

Duplicity creates each increment on the top of chain of increments. I wonder if it's possible to create each subsequent increment like the first one - with full backup as its base. Is it feasible without existing files modification (no moving, no…
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Duply adds an AT (@) before the path (Ubuntu 16)

After an update from Ubuntu 14 to Ubuntu 16, duply stopped working - or rather continued working, but stored the backup files into the wrong directory. This is the duply configuration…
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Duplicity/Duply Backup of EFS filesystem on AWS: All files "possibly locked"

I have an EFS file-system on AWS being mounted by an EC2 instance in order to perform backups. The filesystem has appropriate permissions: drwxr-xr-x The ec2 instance is running duplicity/duply to backup EFS to an S3 bucket. The first time the…
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