Basic question about adding a second storage

[kevinvinv]

I added second storage using the CLI… and -add

Is it supposed to prompt me for passwords? It seems to just not find them in the keychain and quit.

I guess I forgot how to add a second storage and get duplicacy to prompt me for the password the first time.

Help?

[towerbr]

Can yout post the command used?

[kevinvinv]

Sure-- see next Thanks!!!

# Default storage name-  backup to babymac
/Users/kevinv/Documents/Software/Duplicacy/duplicacy  -background -log add -e storage_babymac kevin_salvage1   sftp://babymac@jvsns.duckdns.org:2223//home/babymac/backups/KevinV
/Users/kevinv/Documents/Software/Duplicacy/duplicacy  -background -log backup -stats  -storage  storage_babymac
/Users/kevinv/Documents/Software/Duplicacy/duplicacy  -background -log prune -a -keep 0:360 -keep 7:30  -keep 1:3  -storage storage_babymac
/Users/kevinv/Documents/Software/Duplicacy/duplicacy  -background -log check  -storage storage_babymac

[towerbr]

I added the second storage using the CLI … and -add
Is it supposed to prompt me for passwords? It just seems like not finding them on the keychain and leaving.

duplicity -background -log add -e storage_babymac ...

It’s not asking for password due the -background option.

You are adding (basically “initializing a second”) storage. Duplicacy is trying to create a new encrypted configuration (-e option).

I’ve never used the -background option with add, it doesn’t seem to make sense, since the password is not yet in the keychain. You would have to use an environment variable.

I guess I forgot how to add a second storage and get duplicacy to prompt me for the password the first time.

Try without -background option.

And I suggest evaluating, for your use case, if what you want is an add or a copy. The second creates a compatible storage. Look:

Copy command x passwords

A simple question: when creating a new storage for copying, using the configurations of an existing storage with the -bit-identical option, using the command: duplicacy add -e -copy source_storage -bit-identical copy_storage rep_id storage_url Does the new storage password need to be the same as the original storage?

[kevinvinv]

Oh yes- thank you! I am a little embarrassed I didnt notice this.

And thanks for the pointer about copying… but I am sort of philosophically against copying backups
Thanks again!!!

[gchen]

The -background option was meant to be an undocumented option – it was designed for the GUI only, since its purpose to suppress the prompt for entering password when no previous passwords are found in the environment or the keychain/keyring, which would lead to authorization errors (still better than hanging on waiting for user input).