How to make Duplicati start automatically with Ubuntu?

[JonMikelV]

@Henr

I have restarted Ubuntu, and Duplicati isn’t running.
(At least the icon is not shown!)

The icon comes from the tray-icon (Duplicati.GUI.TrayIcon.exe), what you enabled (with @prez’s help) was the SERVICE.

The service is actually the important part where Duplicati does it’s thing - it will even run scheduled backups even if the tray icon isn’t showing or a user isn’t logged into the computer.

If you want the tray icon to start when you log into the the computer, you’ll need to add the tray-icon to your session / startup info.

Note that different distributions may work differently, but this should give you a starting point…

@JonMikelV

To have Duplicati automatically run when YOU log into Ubuntu based Linux-Lite:

1. Go to “Menu -> Settings -> Session and Startup”.
   
2. Select the “Application Autostart” tab.
3. Click the “+ Add” button
4. Enter a name (such as: Duplicati), Description (such as: Run Duplicati backup tool), and Command (such as: dulplicati), then click the “OK” button.