Mega and 2FA: How to back up when 2FA is enabled?

[monoprix]

Hi,

First, thanks for making such a great piece of software. It’s come in handy more times than I can count.

I’m curious to know, though, how to upload backups to MEGA when 2FA is enabled. I haven’t been able to backup anything with 2FA enabled. Is there a setting I’m missing?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[JonMikelV]

Hi @monoprix, welcome to the forum!

I haven’t used two factor authentication with Duplicati myself, but apparently it should be doable - at least according to this:

Detailed guide to set up OneDrive Personal with 2FA

I have not used 2FA for OneDrive, but generally, Duplicati requires a continous access option (it will not ask you for a 2FA code each time it runs a backup). For the other connections based on OAuth, you only need to provide the 2FA access code when setting up the integration (i.e. getting the AuthToken from https://duplicati-oauth-handler.appspot.com/). After this, a separate set of login credentials are created for Duplicati to use (encrypted on the server with the AuthToken). These credent…

[monoprix]

Thanks so much! I’ll look into it and report back!