So i started with a standard install of Duplicati on a Windows machine, and then decided i wanted to run it as a service instead. So i did the “Duplicati.WindowService.exe install” and made the tray icon “Duplicati.GUI.TrayIcon.exe --no-hosted-server”. Opened Duplicati and previous completed backup …

It since came back with files missing message so am now doing a Database Repair and the current status is “Recreating Database”

This is caused by a different location of the user profile folder. When installing Duplicati, it will use %appdata%\Duplicati to store program settings and local databases. If you install Duplicati as a service and start the service with the same user account, it will detect and use the existing ba…

Yes I think you’re right but I ended up with the same outcome after the DB repair also… Thanks !

I run the Service under my own user account (that has Admin rights)…so there was no need to copy files…

Under edit config Destination click Test Connection Copy Duplicati-server.sqlite to system profile roaming folder

In my case, it looks like the database was not located in the %APPDATA%\Duplicati folder (i.e., AppData\Roaming), but rather in the AppData\Local folder. In any case, I opted for the Repair database option before I saw this thread, and that seems to work fine.

Welcome to the forum @mrtumnus [image] mrtumnus: but rather in the AppData\Local folder. 2.0.1.68_canary_2017-06-28 moved it, but few would have known until 2.0.2.1_beta_2017-08-01 Switched to %LOCALAPPDATA% for storing data on Windows

Thanks for the background. It looks like the ‘official’ guide here has both locations mentioned: [image] Migrating from User to Service install on Windows How-To Thanks to @martijnsmith for giving me the boost needed to “how-to” this! If you want to run Duplicati as…

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