But with Duplicati it isn’t critical. It’s ok for the local database to be lost as it can be rebuilt from scratch by reading the files on the back end. Now I’ll caveat this by saying Duplicati has had some bugs that made this not work as well as it was supposed to, where it could take a very long time. But in my experience the issues have been resolved in the recent Canary builds. I do a test recreation of my databases every few months and it takes 15 minutes at most.