Questions tagged [duplicity-backup]
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Backup multiple folders with duplicity (including/excluding)
I would like to backup the following folders with duplicity
/home
/etc
/usr/local
/root
/var
/boot
and exclude…

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How do I backup to google drive using duplicity?
I have been trying to get duplicity to backup to google drive. But it looks like it is still using the old client API.
I found some thread saying that the new API should be supported but not much details on how to get it to work.
I got as far as…

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Duplicity restore produces an error "No backup chains found"
I'm testing duplicity's restore functionality:
duplicity restore file://fullSystemBackup/ backupOutput
Which produces an error of:
Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
Last full backup date: none
GnuPG passphrase for…

Chris Stryczynski
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Is it safe to delete duplicity cache folder?
I'm using duplicity to the backup web project.
There are three different places that handling by duplicity: storage, DB, and system settings.
I want actually to stop backing up storage and left two others.
So the question is how can I know which…

Anton
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Can someone clarify my Duplicity statistics for me?
here's output from a Duplicity backup that I run every night on a server:
--------------[ Backup Statistics ]--------------
StartTime 1503561610.92 (Thu Aug 24 02:00:10 2017)
EndTime 1503561711.66 (Thu Aug 24 02:01:51 2017)
ElapsedTime 100.74 (1…

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Duplicity on macos not working, getting: env: python2: No such file or directory
I'm trying to run duplicity on macos and I'm getting this error:
env: python2: No such file or directory
IMHO there is a link missing between python2 and python2.7 but I'm not sure
Is it safe to create a link from /usr/bin/python2 to…

Romeo Kienzler
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duplicity --exclude option doesn't exclude the mentioned dir
#!/bin/bash
datetime="`date +%Y%m%d`";
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="MYKEY"
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="MYSECRET"
export BACKUP_DEST_FILES="s3://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mybucket"
cd /var/www/
dirs=($(find * -maxdepth 0 -type d))
for dir in…

Mher Harutyunyan
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Duplicity backups with PGP fail: "Unusable public key"
I am trying to create an ansible role to automate backups. However, it fails with the error:
Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
Last full backup date: none
GPGError: GPG Failed, see log below:
===== Begin GnuPG log…

DMCoding
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How-to restore duplicity/duply backup from unknown archive
I've multiple virtual machines and every machine is backuping to the same backup storage (GlusterFS; it's mounted using fuse), but into different backup directories. /var/www/ for example will be backuped to this directory:
…

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Referencing a dynamic argument in the Docker Entrypoint
I want to run a docker container like this:
docker run --rm -it -v volume1:/target -v volume2:/backup duplicity-image backup-label
This would cause the following Entrypoint do get executed:
duplicity /target file:///backup/$backup-label
So my…

Ole
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Backing Up To Google Drive with Duplicity Not Working
I'm trying to backup to Google Drive with Duplicity, and I can't seem to figure it out. I run this:
GOOGLE_DRIVE_SETTINGS=gdrive duplicity / pydrive+gdocs://*******[:*********]@other.host/server-backup
and I get this:
File…

Jared Caputo
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duply/duplicity -- where should I save profile data?
I am trying to set up a backup to Amazon S3 servers using duply, which is a front-end for duplicity.
When I create a duply profile, this message is returned:
IMPORTANT:
Copy the _whole_ profile folder after the first backup to a safe place.
It…

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Duplicity fails with unclear duplicity.gpg.GPGError
I ran duplicity (v1.2.3_1) (via duply) several times on macOS 13.4.1. After around two hours — without any error and successful transmission of several 100gb via ftp — it fails with an GPG error.
I have no clue what the actual problem is.
GPG error…

arbyter
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How to resume an incomplete duply backup?
I started my first full backup as:
duply profile1 backup
The source data size is 20 TB. Near the end, due to hung state of my filesystem, I had to kill it. Even after Ctrl+C, it left the following files in local…

tash
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Clarify file/dir list to include in duply profile
I have defined /tmp/ as my source directory. I want to backup only in1/ and in2/ subfolders from it. What lines do I need in profile's exclude file?
/tmp/a
├── in1
│ └── in.txt
├── in2
│ └── in.txt
└── out.txt
According to duplicity man page's…

tash
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