Can i manage remote clients?

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Hi,

i’am new to duplicati and have a few questions. I have read the documentation. And i find it very helpful. But i couldn’t find a answer for my question.

  1. The nice monitoring dashboard that you see on the website is only for Duplicati Pro? I installed Duplicati on my machine, but the webui looks different.

The second question, that i have is about remote configuration. I i would know, if duplicati is able to do this.

2.1. A server with duplicati and a webui.
2.2. You can add a backup from a client machine.
2.3. You can configure the added client from the server (remote config)
2.4. You can add a client from the server

I hope that someone can answer my questions.

thanks

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Hi @lab_mazzel, welcome to the forum :waving_hand:

The Duplicati Console is a paid optional service for Duplicati, but it does have a free tier, with up to 5 machines.

The UI looks a bit different, but we are in the process of updating the UI. You can get a canary build, if you want to try the UI that looks more like the console.

Not sure what you want exactly.

The Duplicati console has a “remote management” feature, where you connect your local Duplicati instance to the Console, and then you can manage the local machine from the Console. Kind of like a Duplicati specific Remote Desktop feature.

I think that covers 1-3, maybe also 4.

If you were thinking of something else, let me know.

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Thank you for your answer! :grinning_face: This answered my questions. If i undesrtand this right, i need the Duplicati Console, that is a paid subscribtion.

For the remote question i wanted a server and and register the remote clients. I looked into urbackup this weekend. They do exactly this. You have a server. You can download the client software in the server and install it on the client. Then the server picks up the client and you can configure the client from the server.

But i also will check out the canary build from duplicati! Thanks!

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With Duplicati, you need to manually register the client, but you can do that with a pre-registered URL and simply invoke it from the commandline:

The Agent build is what is most similar to the setup you describe, it does not have a local UI.

You can use preload.json to configure the agent without any commandline invocations.