Duplicati on Debian etch

[quadpr5]

I have someone with a Debian Etch fileserver who wants to back it up.
Would Duplicati work on such an old OS? It dates back to 2008!

Cheers

[JonMikelV]

Sorry the delayed response - I’ve had a busy week…

I don’t have experience with Etch (and have barely touched Debian) but I suspect Duplicati should work fine as long as mono runs on it.

[tophee]

@quadpr5

Would Duplicati work on such an old OS?

No, it won’t, unfortunately. I suppose you are talking about an older Netgear ReadyNAS? See here:

Installing Duplicati on a Netgear ReadyNAS

This article describes how I did get Duplicati working on a Netgear ReadyNAS. Due to my very limited Linux skills I suppose there are a number of things that could be done better, so feel free to comment what could be improved. A ReadyNAS running ReadyNAS OS6 is required. Older models running RAIDiator (like the ReadyNAS Duo and ReadyNAS Ultra) are based on an ancient Debian version that doesn’t meet the minimum requirements for installing Duplicati. Create a new shared folder. Give it the na…