I’ve been running duplicati in a docker container for years encrypting and backing up folders in our server to Google drive. There’s about 2tb of data there.
I’m now moving all the files off this computer onto a NAS running truenas. I can now run Duplicati directly on the NAS.
What is the best way to deal with this?
Can I just move the files to the NAS (they likely wouldn’t be the same folder names) and export/import the duplicati config and will deduplication deal with things?
Should I match the folder names and use the same docker yaml file?
You can simply move the files and change the source in the backup. Duplicati is using deduplication, so the first run with the new paths will be slower as it scans the files to find data. But since the data already exists, it will not add to the backup size. Next backup will know the paths and be much faster.
If you are moving Duplicati out of a Docker container, you just need the new instance to point to the same folder with Duplicati-server.sqlite and all will work the same.
