Duplicati: Free backup software to store encrypted backups online

Re:Duplicati: Free backup software to store encrypted backup... by Normille on Thursday November 03, 2022 @08:37AM (#33450077)

Another happy long-term Duplicacy user here. My only problem with it is; on the rare occasions I need to restore something from backup, I can never remember the correct syntax and always have to look it up again.

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Re:Duplicati: Free backup software to store encrypted backup... by waynesonfire on Thursday November 03, 2022 @08:47AM (#33450168)

Make a script!

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Re:Duplicati: Free backup software to store encrypted backup... by wartijn_ on Thursday November 03, 2022 @09:31AM (#33450671)

Or a do-nothing script if you don't want to automate it right away.

https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing-scripting-...

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Re:Duplicati: Free backup software to store encrypted backup... by Normille on Thursday November 03, 2022 @04:18PM (#33456893)

Never seen that concept before. I've done similar in the past using aliases in my ~/.zshrc

  alias taskname='echo "blah. blah... instructions for task..."'

Of course, then I have to remember what nemonnic I used for 'taskname'!

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Re:Duplicati: Free backup software to store encrypted backup... by waynesonfire on Thursday November 03, 2022 @05:10PM (#33457654)

I had the exact same reaction. I have little "README.md" text files scattered about to remind me how to do things and never thought to make an interactive post-it note.

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Re:Duplicati: Free backup software to store encrypted backup... by Gazoche on Thursday November 03, 2022 @07:58PM (#33459724)

Same. I ended up writing the steps in a file because I could never remember them. It's not very complicated but a bit counter-intuitive: instead of pulling everything from the remote you first have to recreate "repository" with the same parameters as the original one, and _then_ run the restore command.

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