WebUI run schedule from CMD

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#1

I started using Duplicacy about a month ago and have gotten it to work quite well in a docker setup on my Unraid system. I have it backing up all my shares on a schedule without issue. I would like to also have Duplicacy backup my dockers as well.
I have a schedule to do this, but my issue is that I want my dockers shutdown first before running the schedule.
I have a way of shutting down my dockers from within the Unraid system on a cron job - I would then like to call the Duplicacy schedule to run the docker backup.

My problem is - i can’t figure out a way to run the schedule in Duplicacy from command line. In fact, running any backup from the CMD when this is installed as a web UI seems to be difficult.

I’ve tried looking on the forum, but I’ve come up empty handed. Maybe my google-foo isn’t as good as I thought it was.

Any help would be appreciated.

#2

It is quite counterproductive to try to fight webui internal implementation to do work for you from stopped container. It’s difficult because it’s not the right approach.

Instead, use duplicacy CLI on your container host directly. Initialize a new repository (with a unique snapshot id, pointing to the same storage) in the empty folder, symlink stuff you want to backup there and run it using container host scheduler.

If you want pretty graphs in webui — add that there as well and have it run check job.