i was trying to check if it would run after setting as a service w/o having the tray icon running in linux and was greeted with a fresh install type thing with none of my backup configs and it asking me if i have a multi user system and to setup a password. i didnt manually export/backup my backup configs, are they somewhere on my system to restore from?
im not sure what happened. i was messing around with grub and which drives os drive boots by default but other than that i dont think i did anything to jack with duplicati. there may have been a mono update yesterday iirc.
When you switch the user context in which Duplicati runs, the default locations for the databases change. This can make it appear that you are back to a fresh install.
If you want to keep the new user context, you can try stopping Duplicati and moving its sqlite databases from the old location to the new location. Then start Duplicati again and your configuration should be ārestored.ā
im not sure i switched the āuser contextā or maybe i dont understand what you mean? the directories are the same as from when i setup duplicati a couple weeks ago afaict.
The default run style is for the TrayIcon to launch at login, and it runs under your login context. The databases are stored in this location by default: %localappdata%\Duplicati, which translates to C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Duplicati.
You stated in your original post that you switched it to run as a service. What user context did you set that service to? By default I believe services run under the āLocalSystemā user context, so the Duplicati databases would be stored here: C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Duplicati. (Note that this folder is normally not accessible due to UAC - you can see it using an elevated command prompt.)
There are a couple options. You can set environment variables to force Duplicati to look at the āoldā folder location for the databases. Or you can move the databases to the new location. Or you can change the service to run under your own user contextā¦
If it runs as a service then the default location for Linux is /root/.config/Duplicati. If it runs as a user then it should be the userās home folder, ~/.config/Duplicati.
actually this is odd, i dont remember that /root/.config file being there and i cant get into it, it says permission denied. and yes, i have all of the files under ~/.config/Duplicati.
i can see that there is /root/.config/Duplicati/Duplicati-server.sqlite via the search but if i sudo bash into the dir and search it its not there. would it be because the service is running or something?
No, the files are visible even if Duplicati is running When you sudo bash you would have to cd /root/.config/Duplicati and then ls -l should show you the files.
Youāll have to be very careful here with how you proceed. You need to make sure you correctly identify which sqlite files you want to keep, and where you want them placed, etc. If you arenāt careful you might wipe out the sqlite files you actually want to keep.
I would start by noting the exact location and timestamps on all the sqlite files on your system.
Yep, exactly. Duplicati before was running as your regular user, and now it is running as root (so it places its files in a different location).
First question - do you want it to run as root? Or as your regular user again?
If you want to run as your regular user, but you still want systemd to launch Duplicati on bootup as a service, then we can probably adjust your systemd configuration so that it runs as your user instead of root.
If you really do want it to run as root, then what ultimately needs to happen is the sqlite files need to be moved from your home area to the root folder. This would need to be done while Duplicati is not running, and there may be other issues. Iām thinking that the path information to where the job-specific sqlite files are stored is in the main Duplicati config. So all of those will probably need to be updated. Hereās what I see when I look at one of the backup jobs on one of my Linux machines:
Itās kind of a pain to switch user contexts after youāve been using Duplicatiā¦
ya id love for the configs to be kept in home and also have it run at system start. when i read through the posts about doing that on ubuntu i figured thats what i was doing.
Does that folder actually exist? If so, can you see what user Duplicati is running as? I presume itās running as root, so I donāt know why it wouldnāt be able to access that folder.
You can run a command like this - it shows iām running it as root on my system:
