What if: Worse Case Scenario - Home Destruction

[Manos]

I’m trying to think through how this would work. If my house were to burn to the ground and all my hardware was lost including my Unraid server, how would I recover the encrypted data I backed up to B2 using Duplicacy?

[Droolio]

Well, you’ll need to keep enough information to access Backblaze and of course the password to decrypt the Duplicacy storage. Back these up in a place that will survive such a disaster - e.g. on Bitwarden, safe deposit.

Test out these restore scenarios, particularly when not having your mobile phone to unlock 2FA etc…

[saspus]

Relevant thread

How to restore from scratch?

First you need to find out the repository id. You can find a snapshots directory on the storage, and each repository id is saved as a subdirectory under snapshots. Of course you’ll also need the encryption password if the storage is encrypted. Now on the new computer you can choose any directory to be the new repository; the name of the directory does not matter. cd path\to\new\repository duplicacy init repository_id storage_url You’ll need to add the -e option if the storage is encrypted. …