Is there any new guidance on running Duplicati as a service on Windows?

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A lot of the guidance around running Duplicati as a service is getting quite old. Such as this with is 5 years old, and this video it links to which is 8 years old. I have a workload that I’m basically stuck being unable to backup because I need to leverage snapshots which I can’t do without giving Duplicati system permissions. The link that I pointed to doesn’t entirely line up with what I am seeing on this system post install of 2.1. For instance the paths called out don’t exist except for the path that the link calls “portable”.

Thanks all.

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The guide is here now:

One caveat is that Duplicati 2.1.0.5 (stable) is using a folder under C:\Windows which is not recommended as major Windows updates will erase the folder. The canary uses a new location and warns if you are in C:\Windows, so you may want to consider using the canary builds, or setting a custom path for the service using --server-datafolder=.

If you have a specific point that you are stuck at, perhaps we can help with that.