How to recreate a backup job

[JonMikelV]

@Joe

So to do that i need to create a new backup job, and select NO files to backup and it will automaticly pick up the files / folders that i had selected in the original job?

Sorry - somehow I missed your reply. You’re probably way past this, but no - you’ll still have to select your Source files since Duplicati by default doesn’t store a “copy” of the backup job anywhere.

@Joe

unless there is another log somewhere not just the “show log” page in the gui

As mentioned in the post below, there is a crash log stored in %LOCALAPPDATA%Duplicati\crashlog.txt and you can manually specify a log be created with the --log-file parameter, but otherwise all logs are stored in the .sqlite database files themselves (which is what the GUI is displaying):

Where does Duplicati keep its log files?

There are a number of logs. The general logs are stored in %LOCALAPPDATA%Duplicati\Duplicati-server.sqlite. The “per-backup” logs are stored in the local database (you can get the path from the “Database” menu. Then there is a crash log in %LOCALAPPDATA%Duplicati\crashlog.txt. And you can also have a log file set with --log-file=C:\logfile.txt.

I don’t know anything about jails so I don’t know where that crashlog.txt file would be. I do know that with Docker containers if I’m not careful I can end up storing logs and temp files in the container which often runs out of space - is that a possibility with a jail?