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duplicity is an open source software to backup data incrementally in an encrypted format. It can save/upload the backup to local or remote destination. It is written in python and uses librsync.

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Duplicity Errno 2 - no such file or directory

I am trying to setup a script for backing up a linux box to a CIFS share. I manually mounted the CIFS share and created a few test folders - OK I then ran duplicity manually with a rather simple command to begin with to make sure things work and…
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Why can my cron job not find a specific command?

I am using duplicity to create nightly backups of my server over FTP. I wrote a script that does both a local and remote backup and logs the output results. When I run this script as the root user, it executes just fine. However when I set it as…
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Duplicity fails to run w/ python 2.3

I tried running the latest code and went as far back as 0.6.07 and I keep getting the following error message when running duplicity. Any ideas how to fix? Tell me I dont have to upgrade to Python 2.4 [root@sierra duplicity]# duplicity Traceback…
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Duplicity local cache during remove-older-than operation

Let me preface this by saying that I really know nothing about Duplicity. The person in my organisation that has the knowledge has gone on leave and as usual, while he's away, unusual things happen. I got an alert today that one of our servers had…
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Identify which volumes are needed for duplicity restore

Background I've been running Duplicity backup with the --s3-use-glacier option, and I'd like to restore a single file. I'm running the command duplicity restore --file-to-restore myfile.txt boto3+s3://mybucket/myprefix localdir As expected, I…
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What happens if an owner on duplicity restore does not exist?

Similar to this answer, I would like to know how duplicity behaves if an owner of files / directories does not exist on restore? And what happens if the owner does not exist on backup? By non-existence I refer to the absence of an entry in…
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duplicity scp (ssh) working with IP-address, NOT with domain?

I'd like to use duplicity to create an encrypted remote backup. SSH-keys are in place and work: sudo -u ssh-user -p 41111 domain.myfritz.net opens a terminal on the remote host. Login is password-less since I created these logins in order to…
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Duplicity /etc/ backup locked files issue

I am supposed to make System-Backups of the linux servers my employer is running. I tried rsnapshot and settled for duplicity, as it seems to be updated more frequently. I need backups of /etc/, /bin/, /usr/, /lib/ & /home/. Obviously, when i try to…
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How to restore subdirectory of a duplicity backup?

I have a duplicity backup script running under Ubuntu 18.04 which has backed up the contents of my /etc directory like this: duplicity --archive-dir=/home/bkp/.cache /etc rsync://backup.host::/bkp/etc I now want to restore the /etc/postfix…
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Split duply/duplicity backup into subdirectories

I have been running backups with duply for a while now. This works great so far, but recently I started getting the error message Attempt 1 failed. BackendException: Bad status code 507 reason Insufficient Storage. I still have enough storage…
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Back up using Duplicity through SCP with key-based authentication

I want to back up my system to a remote server through SCP using Duplicity. However, I use key-based authentication. How could I do this?
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duplicity: Is it possible to create each increment based on last full and not last increment?

Duplicity creates each increment on the top of chain of increments. I wonder if it's possible to create each subsequent increment like the first one - with full backup as its base. Is it feasible without existing files modification (no moving, no…
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Duply adds an AT (@) before the path (Ubuntu 16)

After an update from Ubuntu 14 to Ubuntu 16, duply stopped working - or rather continued working, but stored the backup files into the wrong directory. This is the duply configuration…
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Duplicity/Duply Backup of EFS filesystem on AWS: All files "possibly locked"

I have an EFS file-system on AWS being mounted by an EC2 instance in order to perform backups. The filesystem has appropriate permissions: drwxr-xr-x The ec2 instance is running duplicity/duply to backup EFS to an S3 bucket. The first time the…
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duply backup to specific dir instead of home

While setting up duply for backup I am facing the following problem: Duply should backup a directory (/ruby-webapps/webapp-map/postgesqldata) to another local backup directory(/backup/webapp_database). For setting up the config I used puppet which…
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