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Duplicity is a program for encrypted incremental backups to local or remote storage

Duplicity is a versatile backup program that encrypts backups using gpg and allows storage on various remote systems using a huge variety of backends such as SFTP, S3, WebDAV

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How to verify a file before backup?

I have heard that Duplicity is a nice tool for doing incremental backups. The only thing I am concerned with is verification. How does Duplicity check the backup for being consistent before it syncs it to a server? Does it actually do this? It would…
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How to backup my files to Google drive using Duplicity on Linux?

I'm trying to use duplicity to backup my files from my Linux desktop. I read the answer to this question How do I backup to google drive using duplicity? dating from 2015 but it might be obsolete ? From the duplicity documentation,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Can't restore a file from duplicity

When I try to recover a single file from the backup, it creates an unformatted file sudo duplicity --file-to-restore prueba2.txt file:///copia ~/escritorio/ the command works but returns the following file with no extension I tried another syntax…
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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 error only during retrieve: boto.exception.NoAuthHandlerFound

When attempting to retrieve a file that was backed up to a DigitalOcean S3 compatible instance using these commands... $ source "$HOME/.duplicity/.env_variables.conf" $ sudo duplicity --verbosity notice --encrypt-sign-key=$GPG_KEY --log-file…
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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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Extract duplicity without rearranging the column and find cumsum in python

I have a dataset with 4000 rows, where I have the duplicate rows(e.g. 2, 3, 4 times). I want to find the cumsum of the duplicates over time. I have used this code to assign the number of duplicity. But it has rearranged the position of ID df =…
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Can't update Duplicity in Python 3.9.7 (Requested duplicity has inconsistent version: filename has '0.8.21.post7', but metadata has '0.8.21.post0')

I'm trying to update Duplicity with pip install -U duplicity, but it fails with the following output: Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable Requirement already satisfied: duplicity in…
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Another duplicity instance is already running with this archive directory

I get this message when i try to back up my ubuntu desktop with Duplicity ... Another duplicity instance is already running with this archive directory My Duplicity version is... dara@laptop-20-04:~/git_repos/olf_git$ duplicity --version duplicity…
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Mount webdav share when docker alpine container starts

I have a setup with duplicity (backup software) running inside a docker (alpine) container. The destination is a local folder, which I have mounted as Webdav share. The duplicity backup has a pre and post trigger, so I mount on pre and umount on…
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