How to restore data and then setup backup again?

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Hi Everyone,

Thanks for your help! Method 2 worked perfectly.
Below is a step by step summary of how to do in case somebody else needs to do it in the future:

Scenario

After a total data loss, you would like to restore all data from backup and set up again backup job as before the data loss occurred.

Prerequisites

  • OS + Duplicati installation files (if you also lost your OS).
  • Encryption password for your backup (obviously!).
  • Text export of Duplicati “Default options” [alternatively, if you don’t have the export, you can configure them manually if you remember the settings].
  • Encrypted (for security) export of your backup settings [alternatively, if you don’t have the export, you can configure it manually if you remember the settings].

Advice: keep all above prerequisites in the same location as the backup, so in case of total data loss you have everything you need in one place. The backup settings file must be encrypted as it contains the encryption password of your backup files!

Howto - Disaster recovery

  1. Install the OS and Duplicati (see prerequisites, if you also lost your OS).
  2. Launch Duplicati.
  3. Configure Duplicati’s “Default options” using the text export (see prerequisites).
  4. Click “Add backup”.
  5. Select “Import from a file”, and click “Next”.
  6. Select the encrypted backup export file (see prerequisites), input the password, and click “Import”.
  7. Click “Next” until you arrive to the “Schedule” page.
  8. Uncheck “Automatically run backups”, then click “Next” (this will prevent automatic scheduled backup from launching until you finalize the full data restore).
  9. Click “Save”.
  10. Click “Home”.
  11. Expand your backup profile.
  12. Click “Database…”.
  13. Click “Repair”, and wait until the task completes (this will rebuild your local database from the backup location).
  14. Click “Restore”.
  15. Select your backup profile, and click “Next”.
  16. Select all files that need to be restored and click “Next”.
  17. Select “Original location”, select “Overwrite”, and click Restore.
  18. Wait until the restore completes. At this point, all your files have been restored.
  19. Click “Home”.
  20. Expand your backup profile.
  21. Under configuration, click “Edit…”.
  22. Click “Next” until you arrive to the Schedule sheet.
  23. Check “Automatically run backups”, and restore the original backup schedule.
  24. Click “Next”, then click “Save”.
  25. Click “Home”.
  26. Under your backup profile, click “Run now” and wait until it completes (it should not take long). At this point, we have confirmed the backup is operational again.

Hope it helps!

Cheers,

Gaston

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