I’m finally moving from Borg to Duplicacy on my unRAID server. I’ve got it setup up ok via the Docker, but i’m struggling with the filters (again). I got Duplicacy set up fine on my parents/wife’s Windows PCs but that was not without difficulty. I really don’t remember how it goes, and yes i’ve read the FAQ but i really struggled with it way back then and i struggle with it now.
The first thing that always confuses me is the initial state. Is it everything included or excluded by default?
unRAID has it’s ‘user defined’ shares, and the usual shares you get when you run Dockers and VMs. I’ve got the usual stuff, photos, docs, videos etc. But i also have a couple of subdirectories that i’d like to backup, while excluding everything else in there. Here’s what i think will work, but i’d appreciate some guidance.
Note the Backups & Work directories have some subdirectories i want to include and some directories i want to exclude. And i want to exclude iso files from my Apps directory.
The start point is /mnt/user
for those who know unRAID.
-*.Recycle.Bin/
-*.Trash-1000/
-*.Trash-99/
+appdata/*
-appdata/macinabox/
-appdata/shinobi/
+Work/*
-Work/Legacy/
+Backups/unRAID-Cache/
+Backups/unRAID-Cache/appdata/*
-Backups/*
+Apps/*
-Apps/*.iso
+Documents/*
+Photos/*
I’ve just started a -dry-run with different settings which i don’t think is what i’m after. It’s got a few hours to run (overall it’s about 3tb of data). I’ll wait for it to finish and review the log, but i’d figured i’d ask about these settings as i put more thought into it after starting the previous one.
Thanks. Hopefully someone out there uses Duplicacy on unRAID and knows straight away what works best.