Questions tagged [duplicity-backup]
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Does duply back up the state of a file when it is read or when duply command is started?
I want to back up 100 TBs of data. The backup task should take 30 days given my computation power and bandwidth. But the data are not stagnant. During the progress of back up, data will be modified/created/deleted within the source…
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Mapping of file to volume in duplicity/duply?
Duplicity backs up my files as duplicity-full.TIMESTAMP.vol*.difftar.gz chunks where * is 1,2,3, ... . On the other hand, ~/.cache/duplicity/profile/duplicity-full.TIMESTAMP.manifest contains volumes and file list:
Hostname striker
Localdir…
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How to use regexp with linux expect?
I want to use Duplicity to backup my files from shell, but it requires the password to be passed twice before run. I thought of expect to solve the problem, but I cannot make it work.
What I tried:
expect "Local and Remote metadata are synchronized,…
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Duplicity Restore Throwing "IsADirectoryError: Is a directory" Error
My Linux machine recently failed and I am trying to restore my files onto a Windows 11 machine. The files were created using Duplicity (the external HD containing the files has hundreds of .difftar.gz and .sigtar.gz files as well as a '.manifest').…
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Duplicity and Dropbox short-lived token expires
Since Dropbox switched from long-lived to short-lived access tokens duplicity isn't working properly anymore as the token expires. Is it possible Is there a fix/workaround to this?
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Duplicity: Too many files in target directory
I'm trying to use duply backup which is based on duplicitiy. My problem is that my remote target ("GMX mediacenter" via WebDAV) seems to limit the number of files in one directory to 3000 (which is not documented - only my experience). When this…
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duplicity: accidentally switched sign keys during backups
I've been using duplicity for several months to back up my mac. I recently needed to do a restore, but it looks like at some point I switched keys. Because if I use Key A, it starts to open a few volumes then complains that a volume was signed with…
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Duplicity backup to onedrive client error
I'm trying to make backup of files on my computer in onedrive with duplicity.
I have installed all dependencies, when running duplicity there is the auth link generated which I must open in browser and than in duplicity after giving permissions for…
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Duply / Duplicity backup fails cause of no such file or directory
I am using duply / Duplicity to backup my /var/www directory, but the task is not working. It always fails with following error message:
Copying duplicity-new-signatures.20150827T090338Z.to.20150828T000005Z.sigtar.gz to local cache.
[...]
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duply: using variables in pre script?
I'm using duply/duplicity to backup our servers. In the pre script I want to use the $SOURCE variable to dump mysql databases into it. But the variable is not usable as mentioned in the documentation. :-(
Here's my pre script
echo "source:…
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Duplicity FilePrefixError When Including Absolute Path
I am running across an error happening when I decide to include other folders in my backup, and I am wondering how I can correct it.
My full duplicity command is
duplicity \
--include='/home/MINE/Shareable**' \
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RequestError: -8 when trying to backup files to MEGA cloud drive with duplicity
For some years, I have successfully backed up my local files to one mega.co.nz cloud drive account using duplicity.
Some weeks ago, I created a second MEGA account and wanted to backup more data onto that one. But here, the login always fails with a…
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