I may be crazy... but I just want to confirm with the experts

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#1

Listen, I know I sound crazy, but I just want to be absolutely sure before I do all this work…

Long story short. I’m on Unraid. I have a mini PC that is set up to do SFTP. I set up Duplicacy. I did the initial transfer of 9.5 T and it went great. I do the backups, everything completes as it should.

I now am ready to move the remote PC outside of my home network and bring it to a… well… remote site. But now I am second guessing the logs.

  1. I added a few GB of stuff and did a sync, and the chunks and the size didn’t really change. Why?

2.I added 2 files totaling 6GB, backed up (call this revision 1)… then deleted them, backed up again (call this revision 2).

2a) Where in the log does it tell me that it wiped that file off the revision 2? Or did it not actually ‘wipe’ it because it is in revision 2?
2b) And if it is sitting in revision 1, does that file stay on the drive until I wipe that revision (pruning, as you folks call it)?

  1. Once I understand this, I’m ready to move from a trial to production test. If all goes well, I’ll 100000% throw my money at a license. For the license, it’s $20 for year 1, then $5 every year after right? Is there a way that I can just export my config to a CLI and just use the free version (you know… inflation and stuff.)

Thanks in advance. Sorry for the noob questions here. Just want to make sure I understand it all before I start moving PCs around!

#2

Without further information as to what type of files, it’s impossible to say - other than Duplicacy’s main feature is de-duplication, so it’s probably de-duplicating. :slight_smile:

Deleted files aren’t mentioned in the logs but yes that’s because you can still restore from revision 1.

Correct.

Always.

There are ways to run the CLI in conjunction with the GUI - e.g. by utilising the existing binaries and cd'ing into the appropriate path, or you can init an empty directory pointing to the storage and work with it standalone there.

The ‘config’ isn’t exactly interchangeable but the CLI has its own temporary settings files that can be recreated at any time. Accessing a backup storage is however 100% compatible as the GUI is just a layer that sits atop the CLI - you just need to keep your encryption password (and sftp details).

#3

@gchen - Is there any way that I can get an “extension” on a trial?

I got everything set up, but then the server conked out and I had to wipe the drive. Now I have it set up in the right physical location and I just want to make sure this initial sync (remotely) works as it should.

Thanks in advance!

#4

I sent you a trial code via PM.