Multi user backup on OSX, possible?

[JonMikelV]

Hi @gerovermaas, welcome to the forum!

@gerovermaas

Is it possible to have one installation of Duplicati on OS X and have it backup data of all users

Yes. The easiest way to do that is to run Duplicati as a service / daemon instead of just the tray-icon.

If you read through this topic it should help you with the shift:

MacOS / OSX service installation

I’m looking to put together a how-to for shifting a Mac installation of Duplicati to a service, but the only stuff I’m finding (such as Running as a Service on Mac is so old it doesn’t work with current versions of MacOS… Unfortunately, I’m not super familiar with Macs either so I’m not sure how to build a current OS version supported .plist file to send to launchctrl (or even if such as thing is needed) - but I am willing to play around with stuff! So if anybody has any suggestions on how to …