I have the web-ui installed for Windows and made a storage area (in a local folder) and then did a simple test backup. But then I couldn’t figure out how to use the CLI - I thought maybe it would just be installed globally, but the “duplicacy” command isn’t found - so I downloaded the windows CLI from Github, and tried running a check with it (in the folder of my storage local folder) but it says the repository is not initialized. I’m really confused, and tried to read guides/docs here but just don’t quite understand what I’m doing wrong. Does the CLI not understand anything about the web-ui settings/config? Are they meant to be used together?
You can initialize a new repository in an empty folder pointing to the same storage and be able to run check/list/prune/restore/ etc.
In fact web ui does exactly that under the hood — initializes temporary disposable repositories to perform various operations.
Or…
To add - .duplicacy-web\repositories\localhost\all - as opposed to the numbered directories, is a good place to run general cmds like list, check, prune etc…