I am using Duplicacy to backup my unRAID box. Previously I was using Borg + RClone but because Duplicacy runs the backup and pushes it to Google I’m looking to switch.
With Borg I would just include the directories I wanted to backup. I understand with Duplicacy, I need to cd into the directory first and run the backup command. My question is, if I have 40 parent directories and I only want to backup let’s say 10, do I need to run the backup command on each directory? For example
cd /mnt/user/Folder1
duplicacy -v backup -threads 2
cd /mntuser/Folder 2
duplicacy -v backup -threads 2
Also do I need to init on each new directory? Or will an init of the root directory /mnt/ work fine for the above example? Can they all go to the same snapshot ID?
Finally…last question, I see the .duplicacy file in each directory I “init” with. I used the -pref-dir command but it still places a .duplicacy file in each directory that I use init with. I don’t like having misc files lingering around my file system. Is there anyway to not have that happen or is it a requirement?