Dashboard/Centralized Management

[dr_state]

Does Duplicati have a centralized management feature, more like a dashboard, one-pane all systems? I have seen posts of people wanting it, but wasn’t sure if there is one available now .

[drwtsn32]

No it does not. However you can get a centralized monitoring view (not full management) by using a third party tool like duplicati-monitoring.com

[ts678]

Welcome to the forum @dr_state

@dr_state

centralized management feature

I’d be curious if there’s any bring-your-own-storage open source tool that does. The ones that I know of typically are commercial products aimed at large organizations, managed service providers, and so on. There are several former standalone-product companies that moved upscale, and dumped standalone.

Duplicati’s administration model is that a browser or third-party duplicati-client talks to web server that’s attached to Duplicati directly. As noted, centralized monitoring is a bit better. Reporting Options form the basic feed, then third-party tools (dupReport is another, and then that can feed Apprise and other tools).

Reporting is easier than administration because it’s more generic, and is going out through NAT/firewall.
There’s also less to worry about in terms of login security, having to set up and manage big servers, etc.

[dr_state]

Thanks! but this duplicati monitoring show list of different servers?

[drwtsn32]

Yes, it will show all your backups on all your servers in a single dashboard. This is what mine looks like:

[dr_state]

well this is awesome! are there any step by step guidelines available that I could follow to set this up, just like you did? I’d really appreciate that

[drwtsn32]

You bet… Here’s the main thread discussing its features and how to use them, started by the developer of this service:

Duplicati-monitoring.com - central monitoring of multiple Duplicati instances + nice email reports

One main missing feature of Duplicati is the possibility to monitor multiple Duplicati instances in a central place. Moreover, Duplicati can only send one email after each backup run, but cannot send summarized backup information. https://www.duplicati-monitoring.com fills this gap: It provides you a beautiful dashboard to monitor all your backups, and it sends you beautiful email reports that summarize your backup results. It is a hosted service that is free of charge. If you like it and want…

[Kahomono]

I also keep one set of browser tabs with each tab pointed to the web UI of each of my machines running Duplicati. It’s not quite a single pane of glass but it’s close.

[dr_state]

For windows systems, does Duplicati cannot backup the system image like C drive (Image based)?

[drwtsn32]

Duplicati doesn’t support full system level backups for bare metal restore. You’ll want a different tool for that. (Personally I use Macrium Reflect.)