Linux : Run as service

[Byron_Boy]

Hello.

I have just found Duplicati & installed beta2.0. I cannot find anywhere a test button for email settings but more importantly cannot find any ability to have Duplicati running & doing scheduled backups without having to log in, ie, run as a true service. Can you advise any further information?

Regards,

CJ

[tenkian]

I can’t help with the email question.

The latest version I installed 2 days ago installed a systemd service. as long as this is running the backups should work. The web UI is just for status and changing configuration.

[kenkendk]

Which distro are you using?

As @tenkian said it installs a systemd service, so it should be a matter of running:

systemctl start duplicati

If you want the tray-icon, change the launcher executable to use:

duplicati --no-hosted-server --serverurl=http://localhost:8200

That will make the tray-icon start on login and point to the already running service.

If you cannot (or will not) use the systemd script, you can simply run

mono Duplicati.Server.exe &

In an init.rc script or similar.

The email setup is explained in this topic:

How to set up email notification with Gmail

You can send email reports by supplying some options to a backup job. You can do this in every backup job or in the Settings page. This is the preferred method, because you have to configure it once to make it work for all your backup jobs. You have to specify at least one option: --send-mail-to. All other mail-related options have default values, which you can change by specifying them. So the first thing you can try is using only this option. You can test if this works by typing from the comm…

[archon810]

A helpful guide here for those who didn’t end up with service files (none were installed on OpenSUSE): Headless installation on Debian or Ubuntu · duplicati/duplicati Wiki · GitHub.

[bhlevca]

Thanks, this was a great tutorial.

[pedroeduardo]

Hi, I do not know how to do this. Can you help me with a beginner tutor…

I am using LINUX OPEN SUSE LEAP. Thank you!

@kenkendk

If you cannot (or will not) use the systemd script, you can simply run

mono Duplicati.Server.exe &

In an init.rc script or similar.

[ts678]

Welcome to the forum @pedroeduardo

It would be best if a user with openSUSE Leap helped, if this gets OS-specific… High-level info is:

mono at version 5 or above is required. That lets you run the mono command. The file might be in /usr/lib/duplicati but I’m unsure where yours is. If you have /usr/bin/duplicati-server, examining it with a text editor would probably show, or you could run that script to start the server.

/usr/bin/duplicati is usually a server with a tray icon that shows status via its style and colors.

Starting at boot would be done by configuring systemd, typically done via the systemctl command.
openSUSE:Systemd tips
The systemd Daemon
You’d probably do things like sudo systemctl start duplicati (or stop, enable, disable, etc.)

Examples from other systems:

Installing Duplicati on Linux (Ubuntu / LinuxLite)
How to install Duplicati on Debian Stretch