Move from sftp to webdav

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#1

All my backups are running with sftp.
I like to change them to webdav. Storage is the same
Do I have to completly reinitialize them or is there any kind of short cut in changing the protocol but keeping the encryption and the files?

#2

I think what you want to do is copy all the revisions.

All is explained very nicely here:Back up to multiple storages.

In short: what you want to do is:

  1. create the destination folder on webdav
  2. add the new webdav storage to the existing repository:
    duplicacy add -e -copy default -bit-identical webdav-storage my-repository-id webdav://username@server//path/to/storage
  3. copy the existing backups from your current (default in my example) storage to webdav-storage:
    duplicacy -v -log copy -threads 20 -from default -to webdav-storage
  4. wait

Do note that step 3 will take quite a while, depending on the size of your storage. Maybe you could try increasing the # of uploading threads from 20.

You may also want to prune your sftp storage before copying everything, or maybe copying only a few revisions at a time instead of the whole thing in 1 HUGE take.

#4

Only the transfer protocol should be changed path and files remain the same. Is there no way to use the existing revisions and chunks and just change the protocol? As I understand your solution I have to retransfer all the files?

#5

Ah, sorry, i missed this part.

If you say that the storage is physically the same, then i guess you don’t need to do all that i said above.

This is only a belief not 100% sure, but all you should do is change in the preferences file the storage (chage sftp with the webdav equivalent).

Then go ahead and run a list, and eventually a check just to be sure.

What I also suggest is backing up (making a copy) of the preferences file, so that in case something’s wrong with the modified config you can go back to the existing one.

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#6

Seems to work so far, I will provide feedback after backup finished.
Did not thought that it is that easy! Thanks!
edit:
this did the trick! backup finished.
This is one thing I like on duplicacy
It sticks to “keep IT simple”

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