I’m running arch linux and trying to backup my entire system, which I don’t think duplicati has access too (Error reported while accessing file seems like a permission error)
got 7656 errors when trying to backup.
is there any way to give duplicati elevated permissions so it can backup my entire system every once in a while?
would save a lot of headache from having to reinstall arch and all the applications/plugins whenever I break something I don’t know how to fix
2022-01-17 19:06:24 -05 - [Warning-Duplicati.Library.Main.Operation.Backup.FileBlockProcessor.FileEntry-PathProcessingFailed]: Failed to process path: /bin/augenrules
Under what user is Duplicati running? I believe the official Duplicati Linux packages configure it to run as root so it has access to all files.
That being said, Duplicati is not designed for full system backup (where you could do a bare metal restore to recover an entire system). The main problem is that it doesn’t seem to have full fidelity when backing up things like complex permissions, extended attributes, or complex file types (I’m thinking of device files and such).
It was designed to protect user generated data, and for that it does really well.
On my Linux systems I usually back up /etc, /home, and some other areas that have files I want to protect.
It is running under root privileges. If it can’t back up system files, what’s the best way to do that?
I just want a way to backup my installed packages, themes, etc - I don’t really care about the kernel and system files as a reinstall will already cover that. Does /etc and /home cover pretty much everything?
As seen by what? AUR package makes Duplicati more secure (rather than root) so it has access issues.
About → System info → Username is one way to see the user, but various system tools can also do that.
About → Show log → Live → Warning should be able to give more info on why it can’t access those files.
Sampling around, though, it looks like some are root-only, which is weird if Duplicati is really run as root…
