Is Duplicacy still under development?

[david.litchman]

I liked the software (the back end anyway) and I bought a multi-year subscription but there are serious issues with the web interface and there have been no updates in months. Is this software still being developed or has it been abandoned?

[gchen]

Yes, of course. In fact I’ll release the next update in a couple of weeks.

What specific serious issues are you experiencing? Can you share links or post about them if not reported before so that I can fix them in the next update?

[DUser]

I just renewed my subscriptions. I also hope very much for a further development.

It’s not just about “serious issues”, but mostly about making a GUI ready for not so computer-savvy users. Duplicacy is great, but you still need to be quite computer-savy to use it.

[camjac521]

For me, Duplicacy Web hasn’t had many bugs but it seems to very basic in functionality since its inception. It would be cool if advanced and useful features like searching through all snapshots for a file (or even adding regexes as well) or even sorting in the restore tab.

And on Windows when you hit the stop button on the Web UI, it force closes the duplicacy backup process instead of gracefully shutting it down, so it doesn’t save the state of the upload that happens if it closed using the shortcut on CLI, which then makes the next backup longer because it verifies all of the files it already uploaded before.

[gchen]

The old native GUI has been deprecated – it won’t be worked on unless there is a major bug. Did you get a chance to try the new web GUI?

[camjac521]

That’s the one I’m currently one. The Web UI version.

I’ve been watching the progress but many feature requests haven’t made it into updates.
Do you like these feature requests?

Web Edition restore enhancements

Are enhancements to the restore process of the web gui planned? It would be nice to get a checkbox type setup of selecting files and folders (while then deselecting subfolders to not restore) similar to Backblaze. Right now you can only choose one folder/file at the time of restoring. Also, is it possible to implement a search feature across all revisions? Or an ability to download single files directly through the web browser with possibly a right click functionality?

Feature Request: Search Backups for File / See File History

When restoring, a major feature would be the ability to search for a given file in a given storage/ID. Furthermore, showing the file’s actual revision history would be very helpful. Perhaps a powerful but likely complex way to do this would be a view similar to Dropbox, allowing you to search and review historic versions of a file.

Restore UI Options - perhaps explicit selectors instead of an unforgiving edit field?

I appreciate the ability to just type in the destination, in addition to having a button for browsing for a folder (Which I’d rather use standard OS file dialog – but that’s for a different topic) [image] However the same logic does not really work well with Options field. From personal experience, my most frequent restore are into /tmp and most frequent options are -ignore-owner, because that would fail otherwise – users UUIDs are different. However there is no easy way for me as a UI user …

Web Edition: Revisions Filtering

I’m running backups every 15 minutes, so I have a lot of revisions. Consequently, the Revision dropdown on the Restore screen takes like 30 seconds to populate. When it finally does populate, it’s displayed as a ridiculously long list of revisions. It would be better if the user could select a date and time range from a calendar popup, to filter the list.

Web-UI: Schedule improvements

I’ve started to use the product more and more over the past month, so here are some of my pain points regarding scheduling: Schedules cannot be paused Currently, the only workaround is to delete the schedule and create it again or to reschedule it. Deleting the schedule is destructive (wrt configuration), and rescheduling doesn’t allow pausing to be perpetual. I’d like this feature for a number of reasons: If I have jobs backing up regularly and need to run maintenance such as an exhaustive…

Web Edition: Manage Revisions

We need a screen where we can view all the revisions and check off the ones we want to delete. I know this deletion process can be automated with the prune command and I do use that, but sometimes you need to delete revisions or even entire backup sets manually. There should be a Delete All button to remove an entire backup set. This is particularly important when you’re targeting multiple backup sets to the same storage.

[gchen]

I’ve started to use the product more and more over the past month, so here are some of my pain points regarding scheduling: Schedules cannot be paused Currently, the only workaround is to delete the schedule and create it again or to reschedule it. Deleting the schedule is destructive (wrt configuration), and rescheduling doesn’t allow pausing to be perpetual. I’d like this feature for a number of reasons: If I have jobs backing up regularly and need to run maintenance such as an exhaustive…

You can actually pause/disable a schedule by unticking all the day checkboxes.

All other feature requests are related to the restore workflow. I mentioned somewhere in this forum that I have a plan to rework the restore UI – the main part is to cache the results of list commands, so for a revision that has been listed before the file list can be quickly loaded from the cache. The cache can be a database to facilitate search, history, diff, etc.

[Ivan]

Given that CLI wasn’t released for almost 2 years, is the project still alive?

[saspus]

@Ivan

is the project still alive?

Checkins:

Commits · gilbertchen/duplicacy

Community contribution:
https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy/pulls

Infrequent releases is good. It’s a sign of stability.

[Ivan]

Is there any info available on the CLI release plans?

[saspus]

just the roadmaps as far as I know

Roadmap for the CLI

This post will serve as the roadmap for the CLI version. Only features mentioned below will be considered for development. This post will remain closed to replies. Please continue the discussion of each feature in other threads (or create a new thread if there isn’t one). Please note that the CLI is what powers the #web-ui, therefore most CLI optimisations will lead to a better overall experience for everyone. Features to be worked on Memory optimization – currently during the backup, th…

Roadmap for the web GUI

This post will serve as the roadmap for the web GUI. Only features mentioned below will be considered for development. This post will remain closed to replies. Please continue the discussion of each feature in other threads (or create a new thread if there isn’t one). Even if you are not using the CLI version, please note that the CLI is what powers the web-ui, therefore most CLI optimisations are also indirectly relevant for the #web-ui. Features to be worked on Embed all html/css/js res…

[Ivan]

Cool, thanks.
Would be great to have at least a very rough timeline.

[Droolio]

@saspus

Infrequent releases is good. It’s a sign of stability.

Hmm, while this is certainly true, hasn’t the memory optimisation branch been in works for a while now?

The number of commits seems to be quite small, assuming everything’s been pushed to github. Nevermind, was looking at the branch not the PR!

[gchen]

@Droolio

hasn’t the memory optimisation branch been in works for a while now?

That PR has been merged in April. I plan to create a new CLI release off the main branch in next month.

[TyTro]

I plan to create a new CLI release off the main branch in next month.

is it still planned for this month? I need the google drive impersonation feature so it fits me well that it should soon be available.

[gchen]

@TyTro

is it still planned for this month? I need the google drive impersonation feature so it fits me well that it should soon be available.

Maybe by the end of this week. If not it will definitely be next week.

[bkeeper]

@gchen

Maybe by the end of this week. If not it will definitely be next week.

Any plans to use go 1.19 with the new soft memory limit?

[sevimo]

How about merging in some of the outstanding PRs as well? Or at least commenting on the status…