Odd issue after installing as service and Duplicati.GUI.TrayIcon.exe

[JonMikelV]

@briandanimal

How do I get rid of EVERYTHING so I can start fresh with just 1 install?

That would depend on what operating system you are running.

But what do you mean by “just 1 install”? Unless you’re using something like portable mode there should only be a 1 install of Duplicati.

Most likely what you are running into is that the service starts and grabs port 8200 then when a user logs in their tray icon starts and, seeing that port 8200 is in use, grabs port 8300.

Each is running it’s own “backend server” with it’s own set of backups jobs. If you wan the tray icon to connect to the service “backend server” instead of starting its own, then consider this step of the Migrating from User to Service install on Windows topic:

@JonMikelV

7. The Tray icon is no longer needed so you can remove Duplicati from your Startup programs. However, if you like having the icon around then be sure to update the properties of any shortcuts to it (such as in the Startup folder) to include --no-hosted-server parameter as part of the Target field (this tells the Tray Icon to connect to the service instead of starting it’s own instance).