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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duply backup to specific dir instead of home
While setting up duply for backup I am facing the following problem:
Duply should backup a directory (/ruby-webapps/webapp-map/postgesqldata) to another local backup directory(/backup/webapp_database).
For setting up the config I used puppet which…

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duplicity states first hostname letter is uppercase
Can anyone guess, why duplicity suddenly started to make or treat the first hostname letter uppercase?
[root@crew shared_scripts]# duplicity --version
duplicity 0.7.10
[root@crew shared_scripts]# uname -a
Linux crew.gdndev.xyz…

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Trouble getting duplicity + cron + shell script to play nicely together
I'm not sure if this is more appropriate here or over in Stackexchange so sorry if I got it wrong.
I was wondering if I could get some help: So I'm trying to use cron to run my shell script which consists of multiple duplicity calls (so I can back…

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restore backup files in another server using duplicity
I am using duplicity to backup the application files with gpg key to Amazon service S3 server. And then restore the same from S3 to own server. I want to restore the backed up files to another separate server. is it possible? Please help..

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How to restore with Duplicty if Temp space has 0 available?
Normally this command works properly for restoring:
duplicity restore -t7D --file-to-restore folder/to_restore file:///where/is/the_backup/ /where_to_restore --no-encrypt
But today I am having this error:
Temp space has 0 available, where_to_restore…

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Duplicity for remote backup to AWS S3
I am using Bacula with S3 for backups. I keep bacula volumes for 60 days or so. Using duplicity as I would like to use GPG encryption of the volumes.
Is there any way to do an rsync style sync using duplicity? What I want is exactly the same…

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Using Duplicity with AWS S3 and IAM Folder policy
I'm trying to setup backups from multiple hosts to a single bucket. Each host has their own AWS login and credentials. The top most folder (prefix) maps to the AWS user id and I'm trying to limit access to that folder only.
During the backup I get…

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Duplicity backup restore to the same system or other system had issue
I have installed the duplicity on centos-7 and I was able to encrypt the data and able to restored the same on other server.
duplicity --encrypt-key='12005FB81112' etc.gz scp://xyz@104.111.108.101/backup/
when I restored the backup I was able to…

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Duplicity: No Shell Expansion with Globbing Filelist?
I am running a Samba PDC with both home directories and Win7 (roaming) profiles under '/home', i.e.:
/home/[user name]
/home/samba/profiles/[user name]/win.V2
For backup purposes (duplicity 0.6.18 on Debian 7.6), I am only interested in a user's…

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Duplicity Backups (via Duply) to S3 - high server load
We have been doing incremental backups using Duply on our main server, to an S3 bucket.
However, we've found that there is a high server load during the backups (its an Amazon EC2 server).
We're thinking this may be due to it checking every file on…

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Back up S3 bucket to another?
I am looking at duply and duplicity currently to mirror one bucket to another but it looks like I may be running in to a brick wall?
So far I have been able to get things working backing up local directories to an S3 bucket, that part works great. …

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duply: Full backup on Saturday, but only if there was no manual full backup during the week
I want duply to take a full backup every Saturday, but only if there was no manual full backup during the week.
I don't want a full backup to happen on any other weekday but Saturday.
Rationale: It may happen that I have to fix a backup during the…

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duplicity can't find remote backup directory?
Using my private key to do so, this command allows me to connect to /home/backupUser/backup just fine:
$ sudo sftp -oPort=7843 backupUser@192.168.x.x:backup
However when I run duplicity, I get the following error:
duplicity full --exclude ... /…

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How to make Duplicity purge old backups on S3?
To anyone used Duplicity with Duply (wrapper script) on S3, what is the correct command to make duplicity purge old backups?
I tried setting up the "MAX_AGE=7D" variable, and calling duply with backup_purge --force, but it still keeps all…

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Backup script that excludes large files using Duplicity and Amazon S3
I'm trying to write an backup script that will exclude files over a certain size.
My script gives the proper command, but when run within the script it outputs an an error. However if the same command is run manually everything works...???
Here is…

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