Help to setup on a remote (headless) Linux server?

[teknolai]

@chuckleb

An alternative model is to run it inside of Docker. That’s what I am doing on my server. There is a well-maintained Docker image here:

That would have been really neat. Unfortunately, my ancient server (from 2003) does not have a 64-bit processor.

@kenkendk

I have wanted to setup a PPA for some time, but never gotten around to it. That would also make it possible to provide timely updates.

I see that the repositories clearly might be stricter than necessary. IMHO a PPA will be a lot more convenient than downloading .deb’s at least.

@kenkendk

Before starting the service, run the server with a password command:

duplicati-server --webservice-password=secure-password

Wait a few seconds til it has started, then CTRL+C it and when you start it as a service, it has the password you supplied.

Thanks a lot! I tried to install the .deb, and had some error messages while doing so, with missing dependencies:

duplicati needs libappindicator0.1-cil | libappindicator3-0.1-cil
duplicati needs gtk-sharp2
dpkg: error processing package duplicati (--install):

I tried to run the password command as stated. For me at least, I also had to run the command:

sudo duplicati-server --webservice-interface=any

It seemed a good idea to me to do this in sudo, but maybe not? Possibly obvious, but the password seems to be set for the user running the command.

Lastly, I’m still on Ubuntu 14.04, which is from before systemd was introduced in Ubuntu. Meaning the systemctl-command referred to elsewhere in the forum, does not work yet. I’m sure I’ll be able to figure out how to put it into init.d, but for now I can test it and just keep the server running in screen. I’ll upgrade to a more modern Ubuntu version sometime soon, but I would like a backup I can trust before I do, that’s why I’m here.

My first tries of setting up a backup seems to fail, but I’ll try some different settings before asking for more help.