How to back up and restore Duplicacy settings on a Synology NAS

[forummaster55]

Hi -

I had to reinstall Duplicacy on my Synology NAS (DSM 7.2.1-69057).

Is there a way to restore the settings that were being used by Duplicacy? I came across this post: How to backup Duplicacy settings in Synology asking a similar question, but didn’t have any luck getting Duplicacy to pickup the settings.

I have the file from the /@appstore/duplicacy folder, prior to reinstalling Duplicacy.

[saspus]

The settings are contained in two .json files somewhere in that folder.

[forummaster55]

That’s what I was expecting. It’s just a file called duplicacy_web:

I’ll redo the config by hand, but I think coming up with method of how to back up and restore the settings for future use, would be helpful.

[saspus]

ti shall not be in the bin. There shall be some other folder where apps are supposed to keep application data on synology. Maybe search the whole /volume1 for “duplicacy.json”?

[forummaster55]

Found it. Already reconfigured my backup settings but at least I know where to find it next time.

For reference for anyone else who may come across this post in the future, the files are stored in a hidden folder: .duplicacy-web

Path is below

 /volume[###]/@appstore/duplicacy/.duplicacy-web

root@[REDACTED]:/volume1/@apphome/duplicacy# ls -a -l /volume1/@appstore/duplicacy/.duplicacy-web
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 1 duplicacy duplicacy  124 Oct  1 17:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 duplicacy duplicacy   34 Oct  1 15:55 ..
drwx------ 1 duplicacy duplicacy   50 Oct  1 15:55 bin
-rw------- 1 duplicacy duplicacy 8366 Oct  1 17:45 duplicacy.json
drwx------ 1 duplicacy duplicacy   18 Oct  1 17:25 filters
-rw------- 1 duplicacy duplicacy  171 Oct  1 15:57 keyring
-rw------- 1 duplicacy duplicacy 1048 Oct  1 17:22 licenses.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 duplicacy duplicacy  126 Oct  1 15:55 settings.json
drwx------ 1 duplicacy duplicacy   34 Oct  1 15:55 stats