#Duplicacy administration password download#
#Duplicacy administration password free#

Using a web browser, log in to and select Files > New > Folder and give this folder a suitable name, such as “Duplicacy”. Next we need to create a directory on OneDrive for storing our backups, and obtain authorization to use it. Let’s assume you want to back up everything under the /home directory. The next step in the Quick Start guide is “…change to the directory that you want to back up” (which they confusingly call the “repository”).

You should see a version number and a list of options. If you now type this simple command duplicacy Mv duplicacy_linux_圆4_2.7.2 /usr/local/bin/duplicacy

#Duplicacy administration password download#

You can use the following commands to download the Duplicacy program to /usr/local/bin and make it executable. For convenience, we’ll rename it to “duplicacy” as well. If you are a “sudo” user you can use this command to become root temporarily: sudo -i You will need root privileges to do most of the steps below. The first sentence of the Quick Start quide says “Once you have the Duplicacy executable on your path…”, so we’ll start with that.Ĭonnect to your server console via SSH using a program such as PuTTY (from Windows) or Terminal (from OSX). For 64-bit Linux at the time of writing this is duplicacy_linux_圆4_2.7.2. Initial set upįirst, we need to download the latest version of the command line executable appropriate to your operating system. This post is specifically about backing up websites from a Linux server – for backups from Windows see our earlier post. The catch is it’s a bit tricky to set up and the documentation is sparse, so that’s what this post is about.

#Duplicacy administration password free#

This is where Duplicacy comes in – it’s fast, efficient and secure, available for Linux, OSX and Windows and the command line version is free for personal use.

Unfortunately, most control panels can’t use this sort of cloud storage they expect to backup by SFTP rather than S3 or WebDAV. The rest of this post assumes you will use that, but other cloud providers can also be used – there is a slightly different process for using Wasabi, for example. To set them up you’ll obviously need somewhere to store them, and the good news is if you have a Microsoft 365 subscription you already have 1 TB of free OneDrive storage that is probably largely unused.

The best backups are automated (hence frequent), versioned (so you can recover from deleted or hacked files) and off-site (no worries about natural disasters or the host going bust).