Can I clone my entire backup to a new location?

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@JonMikelV

If you want to check the size of your data file (rather than your settings file) you can identify it’s location by using the “Database…” link for you backup in which you should see a “Local database path” field which should help you identify exactly which file is storing your paths, versions, hashes, etc.

Ah, okay. I think both .sqlite files are adjacent to each other. I now have 3 backups, and these are the sizes of their data .sqlite files:

150 GB backup => just over 1 GB
150 GB backup, 2nd copy => just over 1 GB (though, oddly, slightly different in size, even though they have the exact same data and setup)
61 GB backup => 268 MB

So for my data size, it seems the ratio is between ~0.44-0.67% for these data files. Yeah, that’s big enough that I would not want it to constantly recreate it.

@kees-z

Revision 0.4 to serve commandline lovers: added commandline tools description, advanced options and a few appendices. Document has grown to 147 pages. Phew!

Duplicati User’s Manual Rev. 0.4

Most quite excellent! Can you explain why this worked for me in PowerShell to find files, but specifying the actual file path of the backup did not?

C:\Program Files\Duplicati 2> .\Duplicati.CommandLine.exe find file://dummy “file name” --dbpath=“<path to .sqlite file>”

@kees-z

I upload these early versions, hoping that one or more reviewers read the full text and submit corrections. English it not my native language, so there might be some spelling errors and weird sentence structures.

Looks fine to me, though I don’t have a lot of spare time to read everything just yet.

@kees-z

Once complete, I can think of the following uses:

Add a link to the PDF on the website
Include the manual in the installation packages
Somehow convert the PDF to HTML and publish it somehow like this. This also makes it easier to keep the documentation updated. Maybe the online documentation can be easily converted back to PDF for inclusion in the install package.

That would be excellent. I do know of PDF converters out there, so there probably exists something for this use case. Ideally this HTML version would eventually have a comment section, like with PHP and some MSDN documentation, or at least a feedback button that provides the URL/page. This would be your best means of reasonably provided feedback, and I would likely end up being a major contributor towards that.

I do strongly request that the ability to use my external hard drive’s backup on any computer be implemented, if not already, and if it is, that this be documented.

Thanks for all the help/info!