Use-case for Web GUI with no license

Support License
#1

I wanted to ask about the last bullet point re: when you don’t need a GUI license

  • Running the CLI version to back up personal files/documents on a home computer
  • Running the CLI version to restore, check, copy, or prune existing backups on any computer
  • Running the CLI version to back up any files on a computer where a GUI license is already installed
  • Running the web-based GUI (Duplicacy Web Edition) to restore, check, copy, or prune existing backups

Is the idea that people who bought the GUI license previously and made backups can use the GUI to manage those backups once the license expires?

And NOT that you can create backups using the CLI and then manage them with the web GUI without a license?

I ask because at first I thought it was the second thing, but then when I tried to access the CLI backups with the Web GUI it didn’t work.

#2

You can always ‘access’ backups with the GUI - you just can’t run backup jobs with it. So if some non-backup task didn’t work - like adding a backup storage, running prune, check, or copy - that’s not because of the licence, it must’ve been something else.

As for use-case, one that comes to mind is to manage copy jobs in either push or pull configuration, on a server. e.g. Clients backup to NAS, NAS then copies to cloud on a schedule (which can be done without a licence).

#3

Webgui is a front end that runs cli to do everything. It’s not different than running cli under your os scheduler for example.

You can access and manage existing duplicacy storage with cli and/or webgui.

The point of all operations other than backup not requiring license is two fold: to not hold user data hostage, and, as you pointed out, to let users do management operations from different place.

How did you try and what did not work?

#4

Oh OK, I was trying to figure out if I messed up or if I was just trying to do something the software wasn’t meant to do.

Tried again now and I was able to connect to some of the storage I made previously.