Define a folder from distant Laptop as source (Duplicati on Docker-Desktop)

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Hello,

I am sorry if you see this question once again, but after reading the previous posts, I don’t see exactly the same configuration (even you will probably propose “bind mount”).
Indeed :

  • I have installed Duplicati container with Docker-Desktop on a mini PC (that I would like to dedicate to “Homelab”)
  • I would like to make a backup from a folder of a distant Laptop to a Pi4

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Starting from Docker-desktop and a docker-compose of Duplicati, I don’t know how to have the distant folder available in the source :frowning: I am newbie in docker…
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I thank you in advance for your help

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Hello

All I can say is that if I wanted to centrally manage several Duplicati installs, I would do a basic install of Duplicati on each computer and use something like the Python command line client to manage them.

possibly adding a VPN to secure the config link.

I’d be way too wary of coupling a beta software with a network local protocol that is a bad fit for remote links and using a software like Samba notoriously very difficult to setup correctly (and stay setup right with possible updates both in Windows and Samba) to even think of what you are wanting to do.

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Adding to the worry is does the laptop ever go off-network or sleep or power off? What about the Pi4?

Duplicati works best and fastest with Source that is truly a local drive – reliable and constantly around.

Destination is more forgiving, as it does retries on errors, and this can be configured high if need be…

You will get far better Docker support at Docker Community Forums. I don’t use it, but searching found:

How to map LAN network share to Docker volume? and their manual has info, but it looked a bit vague.

You can use Settings to allow remote web based access to Duplicati from your systems on the network.
Command line client will need this anyway, if you go that route, but you could also browse there directly.
You can also just set the Duplicati Schedule tab to do automatic backup. No need to remotely run them.

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