As the title says, I installed Duplicati for the first time, and it immediatly started running a backup. It didn’t give me the setup screen I’m supposed to get after a first install either.
The top-left logo says “beta” as well, while I installed the normal version.
Can someone help me? I want to just clear Duplicati entirely, and redo everything.
I am on Windows 11, btw.
The most stable version is Beta, as seen in the name of the file that you installed.
There are other less stable versions, such as Canary channel, for those wanting to test.
Duplicati doesn’t ship with any jobs. Did you look at the job it ran? Recognize it in any way?
Deleting job and choosing the option to delete destination files is a good way to start cleanup.
This will ensure that the job’s destination storage space is not wasted or paid for forever after.
Assuming you are running the TrayIcon version of Duplicati, its configuration files are likely in:
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Duplicati a.k.a. %LOCALAPPDATA%\Duplicati
You can right-click → Properties the folder to view Created time. It was likely sometime earlier.
The job definitions and schedules are in Duplicati-server.sqlite. The backup would update time.
Job databases are random-letter.sqlite. You can also look at the Database screen pre-deletion.
You can delete its configuration folder if you like. You can even delete Program Files\Duplicati 2
I don’t know if whoever set it up before set up a Windows service, but you can check for that too.
That did the trick! I reinstalled it too, for good measuer!
However, I still don’t get the “onboarding”, which I was told would appear after you open the program for the very first time after installation.
Which did you do?
Who or what told?
Previous post on how it works. It’s sort of an “onboarding”, but not much, and will be going away.
Both.
c’t, a German magazine from Heise.
Unclear which two that was, but if you deleted either Duplicati-server.sqlite or its folder, it should show as I linked, and I just tested it again. You should also get a new config folder and database.
Perhaps you can explain exact steps? Does it even matter, except for being a little bit puzzling?
Subscription magazine. I don’t know what they said. Maybe they mean the little screen I showed.
If you want a password, go to Settings, and set one.
If you do not see a new config folder and Duplicati-server.sqlite, look in the Roaming profile too.
Duplicati switched to Local in 2017, but I have no idea when Duplicati got on the system before.
Apparently it got installed in 2022 once, at least that was the date the folder in Local was last changed at.