I am new to Duplicity, just set it up yesterday w/ my Unraid instance and aws s3 bucket. I am currently backing up my app data backup folder from the app data backup plugin. I am also backing up my Nextcloud data folder (basically the entire Nextcloud share except for app data). Currently I have these setup to backup to two different folders within my s3 bucket, aptly named app data and Nextcloud. Is this the proper practice or am I able to just be backing up to a general “backup” folder within the bucket and Duplicity is able to separate them when I need to?
Duplicacy’s unique feature is that it can deduplicate data across clients, as long as they all backup to the same location. Lock Free Deduplication · gilbertchen/duplicacy Wiki · GitHub
Each backup set — a collection of files you want to backup, aka repository — is identified by a “snapshot id”. Different repositories must have different snapshot ids, and duplicacy maintains version histories for each snapshot id.
Btw buckets on Amazon don’t have concept of folders, they are flat collection of objects. The “folders” you see is in illusion interpreting the / as path separator. Duplicacy stores its own data structures there, there is nothing user serviceable there under normal operation.
Thank you for the reply. So in reality I could just do away with the “folders” I have in the bucket, and backup both separate groups of data to the same bucket, and duplicacy using the ID I entered for that backup, like “app data” it will automatically know which data belongs to that group, and leave the other “Nextcloud” data alone?