Duplicity is a program for making encrypted bandwidth-efficient backups.
Questions tagged [duplicity]
167 questions
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How to exclude all hidden files and folders from duplicity backup
How can I set duplicity to exclude all hidden files and folders from backing them up, without specifying each and every one of them?

ECII
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Duplicity Backup Browse
I have made a duplicity backup with Ubuntu 14.04 in another laptop of my home directory.
I copied all duplicity back files to my current laptop to "/home/user/Ubuntu-backup"
How do i browse the content of that backup see if it is worth restoring?
I…

Benjie
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How do I prevent Duplicity from looking at every file in parent folders?
When running the next command, I get errors about accessing certain files or directories (like /root) for which Duplicity does not have sufficient permissions:
duplicity --dry-run --include="/home/user" --include="/other/dir" \
--exclude='/' /…

Lekensteyn
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duplicity restore failed - urgent help please
Duplicity restore failed
After my fresh ubuntu 16.04LTS install, when i tried to restore from my duplicity back from my external usb, it fails with the message:
Failed to read /tmp/duplicity-QOZBhY-tempdir/mktemp-WsEwV2-1: (, error('Error -3 while…

user665032
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Duplicity with Google Cloud throwing TypeError
I had been using duplicity successfully to backup to GCS for some time but a few months ago it stopped working. I believe there's an encoding problem with moving to Python 3. I have seen a few similar problems floating around (e.g.,…

Jeremy
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Duplicity error
I had to reinstall Ubuntu due to some driver problems. After reinstalling, I tried recovering all my data from my backup, but I kept on getting the error:
OSError: [Errno 38] Function not implemented
How can I fix this?
user669400
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unable to restore duplicity backup
am unable to restore part of my duplicity backup, the file format is /media/ravi/TOSHIBA/Dejadup 090518/Part 2/duplicity-inc.20180507T183302Z.to.20180507T204510Z.vol1.difftar.gz. get a hash mismatch on trying to restore. kinldy help
ravi
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Match current directory with duplicity
I am trying to include a folder in the current directory from where i'm backup up from.
./example
but I get a error!
cannot match any files in the base directory
I am 100% sure that the file exists