Duplicati never completes a back up to ANY service (that I’ve tried). I set up the back up, then click run, and it will upload for maybe 1-2 minutes, then it just… stops. I have tried with large backups, and again with smaller backups. Does it work for anyone else? I have tried different cloud storage services, such as filen and google drive, and it just never finishes. Am i doing something wrong here?
TIA
For anyone interested, I rolled my own solution with bash scripts and rclone. it works well enough.
Try duplicacy. It is not that expensive and it works.
Duplicati is a good backup tool, period. As in, it’s literally just good at backups. When it came to restoring, it took me I think 3-4 days to restore around 419 GB of files.
I highly recommend you ditch Duplicati and look for something else. Or if you manage to figure out a fix, try restoring your files before you actually need it.
And another tip is that when creating your backup, you should copy the database file Duplicati creates onto a separate drive. For whatever reason, Duplicati puts its database files on the same drive you’re trying to backup. So when it comes time to restore, it wants you to grab the database file from your dead/corrupted storage drive.
I second this. Had nothing but headaches with duplicati.
Try Borg.
Borgmatic for the less masochistic
oh, i see. Do you have any suggestions for another backup tool? I tried kopia, but couldn’t figure it out.
ETA: I should note, this is on a pi without a GUI.
Borgmatic
You can self host the Borg server in docker (or bare metal) on another server if you have one (or a friends) and then borgbase offers very good paid backup storage
I use a second server locally, a friend and borgbase as backup locations.
