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Duplicity is a program for encrypted incremental backups to local or remote storage

Duplicity is a versatile backup program that encrypts backups using gpg and allows storage on various remote systems using a huge variety of backends such as SFTP, S3, WebDAV

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Backup multiple folders with duplicity (including/excluding)

I would like to backup the following folders with duplicity /home /etc /usr/local /root /var /boot and exclude…
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Duplicity, amazon s3 backend exception

I'm trying to create an auto backup using duplicity into amazon s3 following this guide: easy server backups to amazon s3 with duplicity However, at this command: duplicity /var/www s3+http://com.mycorp.myhost.backup I encounter the…
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Duplicity doesn't like max open files setting on Mavericks

I use duplicity to backup some files. I'm now trying to restore to my Mac to test the backup, but get the following error: > duplicity me@backupserver.io/backup_dr ~/restored_files Max open files of 256 is too low, should be >= 1024. Use 'ulimit -n…
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Trouble excluding specific folders in a duplicity backup

I am trying to backup my web root using duplicity and am having trouble excluding specific folders. I want to back up /var/www/ that has manny subfolders containg sites : eg : /var/www/site1.com, /var/www/site2.com I want to exclude logs and cache…
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Is it safe to delete duplicity cache folder?

I'm using duplicity to the backup web project. There are three different places that handling by duplicity: storage, DB, and system settings. I want actually to stop backing up storage and left two others. So the question is how can I know which…
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"Not a tty" error in Alpine-based duplicity image

This is my first ever question at stackoverflow, so I hope it'll adhere to the community guidelines: I've build a docker image based on an already existing image which has the sole purpose of running duplicity in an container to backup files and…
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rsync copies to local instead of remote

I've got a problem with my previously working backup-script. In short it simply calls duplicity and orders it to copy files via rsync to a NAS. However when I now start my script, it returns always a permission denied Error. I've narrowed it down to…
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Upload to Swift Pseudo folders using duplicity

I'm trying to use duplicity to backup files to a Swift Object Storage service offered by RunAbove. The name of the container is "backup" and it has a pseudo folder named "web" inside which I want to place backups. Duplicity version: 0.6.24 Python…
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Restore only changed files with duplicity

I've a problem. Duplicity is perfect for backups, I love so much that can be able to do incremental diff tars, but ... when restoring duplicity seems don't apply same concept. Basically I need to restore only changed files (obviously after a full…
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Duplicity "no module named dropbox" error

I try to restore my backup from amazon using the following command as example duplicity restore --sign-key '7F73FA36' --encrypt-key '5FD0100F' scp://rich@backup_server//mnt/backups/edge/main and shell returns the following error "Import of…
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How do I remove GnuPG encryption when backing up using duplicity?

I have tried this command: duplicity full --s3-use-new-style --no-encryption /Location s3+http://${bucket}/${folder} but it still encrypts the file on my s3 folder. What I want is when I run the command and the /Location folder contains txt1,…
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Duplicity restore produces an error "No backup chains found"

I'm testing duplicity's restore functionality: duplicity restore file://fullSystemBackup/ backupOutput Which produces an error of: Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed. Last full backup date: none GnuPG passphrase for…
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Backing up specific folders to Azure Blob Storage using Duplicity

I have an Ubuntu 16.04 VM running on Microsoft Azure. I also have an Azure Storage account. I am trying to use duplicity to backup a folder from Ubuntu to a subfolder under an azure container. I am using the following command: /usr/bin/duplicity -v4…
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Pandas throws weird exception when trying to apply function to duplicate columns

Why am I getting the following error message? I am trying to apply a function to a duplicate column. Please don't tell me that the solution is to do something like df["a"] = 2 * df["a"]; this is a dumbed down example of something more complicated I…
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Duplicity specified archive directory does not exist

When executing: duplicity --force remove-older-than 10D file:///fullSystemBackup/ Produces an error of: Specified archive directory '/home/bitnami/.cache/duplicity/abcxyz' does not exist, or is not a directory
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