Comments on: How-to: FTP-Backup a Linux server with Duply

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:45:05 +0000

Christos, probably the most straight forward thing to do is to install an MTA and cron will automatically send you the email after the backup.

Cheers,
Jan

By: Christos Prassas

Christos Prassas — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:29:54 +0000

Hi,

Firstly thatnk you for the tutorial!

One think I want to do is to send email with each backup log file to my mail….
How can I do that to the post file?

Thank you

By: John

John — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:26:45 +0000

Just wondering,

If I want to use my public key to sign (thus without having to use a password for the private key) how does one go about with that? I know how to do it in duplicity but I didn’t find the option yet in duply.

By: Schroeffu

Schroeffu — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:23:19 +0000

@ Wouter Samaey: It seems2be a bug with the current version:

https://code.launchpad.net/~ed.so/duplicity/reuse-passphrase-for-signing-fix/+merge/72541

Whether 6.0.14 is also affected, i’m not sure.

By: Jens Wedin

Jens Wedin — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:56:24 +0000

Thanks a lot for the howto. Really worked fine!

By: Wouter Samaey

Wouter Samaey — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:35:15 +0000

Duply keeps asking me for the passphrase when running the backup. The correct passphrase is in the conf file, but still I need to input it!

Any ideas?

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 08:42:54 +0000

Thanks for the heads up, Chris.

Cheers,
Jan

By: chris

chris — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:18:32 +0000

In case others are wondering, it was actually a bug in duply. I contacted the project admin on sourceforge and he fixed it (thanks ede!). The changes are included in the latest dev snapshot.

Cheers,

Christian

By: chris

chris — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:52:39 +0000

Thanks for your reply. I just tried and I still get the same error:
[...] not found in archive, no files restored.
13:47:51.000 Task ‘FETCH’ failed with exit code ’19′.

No luck so far

chris

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:54:10 +0000

This is a long shot but have you tried %20 as a space char replacement?

Cheers,
Jan

By: chris

chris — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:21:03 +0000

Hi there,

First, thanks a lot for this great info. I installed duply after reading your post and I use it since a little while now. It works great but the other day I needed to restore a file and I faced a problem: there are spaces in the path pointing to the file I need.

I tried these commands:

duply offsite fetch path/containing spaces/pointing to/myfile /tmp/restore 4D

duply offsite fetch “path/containing spaces/pointing to/myfile” /tmp/restore 4D

duply offsite fetch path/containing\ spaces/pointing\ to/myfile /tmp/restore 4D

But none of them worked. I ended up restoring the whole “path” part of my example (meaning I wrote the path up to but not including the first directory with a space in its name). Not really efficient…

Do you know how to restore a file when the path contains one or more spaces?

Thanks a lot!

By: jekader

jekader — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:28:24 +0000

Thanks for the great post! There’s not that much documentation about duply on the web, and this tutorial makes the process really easy!

Now my backups are secured. Let’s hope I don’t lose the secret key ;)

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By: Mongi Gazelle

Mongi Gazelle — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:29:23 +0000

Another small mistake: The file or the folder to be restored should be without the leading /
I did write it wrong in my own comment, sorry for that. The right syntax is:
duply offsite fetch etc/myfile /tmp/restore

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:24:10 +0000

You’re absolutely right and thanks a lot for spotting this! I’m going to correct this in the post.

Cheers,
Jan

By: Mongi Gazelle

Mongi Gazelle — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:40:21 +0000

Thank you for the nice post.

One correction however when it comes to restore:

duply offsite restore /etc/myfile /tmp/restore will not work and you have to enter duply offsite fetch /etc/myfile /tmp/restore instead. If wished with an age like fetch []

Great work!