Backups

Using Duplicati and DupliStatus

To add a new machine

• Create a new folder under 192.168.1.170:/backups
• do to machine where you want backups to be made
• Create a folder for docker named Duplicati
• Download and install the rpm

wget https://updates.duplicati.com/stable/duplicati-2.2.0.3_stable_2026-01-06-linux-x64-gui.rpm
yum install -y duplicati-2.2.0.3_stable_2026-01-06-linux-x64-gui.rpm

• create a dns entry for duplicati.domain.name
• Add entry into nginx and create a cert
• run manually with

duplicati-server --webservice-allowed-hostnames=* --webservice-password=supersecretinproton  --send-http-url=https://duplistatus.dualarrow.com/api/upload --send-http-result-output-format=Json --send-http-log-level=Information --send-http-max-log-lines=0

• Confirm login works
• stop above command
• Enable and start duplicati service
• Create backup as follows

1. Create new backup
2. Give it suitable name and description
3. Provide password
4. Select SSH
5. enter server backups.dualarrow.com
6. port 2233
7. path of /backups/uniquename
8. username backup
9. password from proton
10. Select all relevenb folders to backup
11. Exclude system files
12. Set suitable schedule. Probably around 1am
13. Keep the last 30 backup
14. Add the following advanced options
15. Http report URL: http://192.168.1.170:9666/api/upload
16. Select the output format for results: Json
17. Select the output format for results: Information

Now run the backup to make sure it works. You should be able to see files start appearing in the backup folder but it could take a few minutes to start appearing.

Now to prep DupliStatus