# Omarchy Linux working as expected

**URL:** <https://forum.duplicati.com/t/omarchy-linux-working-as-expected/22710>\
**Category:** Installation\
**Created:** [September 17, 2026, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/omarchy-linux-working-as-expected/22710 "2026-09-17T20:14:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![f1assistance](https://forum.duplicati.com/user_avatar/forum.duplicati.com/f1assistance/32/11553_2.png) [@f1assistance](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/f1assistance)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2026, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/omarchy-linux-working-as-expected/22710/1 "2026-09-17T20:14:49Z")

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FWIW, I’ve had Duplicati (Stable) 2.4 GUI working in Omarchy Linux for over a week with zero issues so far.

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**Author:** ![f1assistance](https://forum.duplicati.com/user_avatar/forum.duplicati.com/f1assistance/32/11553_2.png) [@f1assistance](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/f1assistance)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2026, 10:57pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/omarchy-linux-working-as-expected/22710/2 "2026-09-20T22:57:41Z")

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FWIW, I had my AI agent create 2 separate backups in Duplicati, 1 to a second internal drive, and a 2nd to a NAS, backing up /home/ & /etc/ on this local machine. I ran them, then had the AI agent review the logs and add filters for all the warnings. I then had the agent create a text file reflecting the configuration and restoration if I experienced a drive failure.

# ws02 Duplicati job: full /home plus /etc for Omarchy reinstall after disk failure

Job name: ws02 config → SSD  
Destination: File, folder /mnt/Backup/Backups/ws02-config  
(second job: /mnt/Backup2/Backups/ws02-config on the NAS)  
Encryption: AES — store the passphrase in KeePass (needed after a reinstall)  
Retention: 1W:1D, 4W:1W, 12M:1M  
Schedule: Daily

Do NOT enable {DefaultExcludes} or {OperatingSystem}. Both exclude /etc.

## Source folders (add these)

/home  
/etc

## Filters (exclude)

{CacheFiles}  
{TemporaryFiles}  
{SystemFiles}  
\*/.local/share/Trash/  
_/.config/chromium/_/Cache/  
_/.config/chromium/_/Code Cache/  
_/.config/chromium/_/GPUCache/  
\*/.config/Signal/Cache/  
\*/.config/Signal/Code Cache/  
_/.config/Duplicati/_.sqlite-wal  
_/.config/Duplicati/_.sqlite-shm  
_/.config/Duplicati/_.sqlite  
/etc/cups/  
/etc/ufw/  
/etc/credstore/  
/etc/credstore.encrypted/  
/etc/cryptsetup-keys.d/  
/etc/sudoers.d/  
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/  
/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/  
/etc/openvpn/  
/etc/cni/  
/etc/fwupd/fwupd.conf  
/etc/default/useradd  
/etc/audit/plugins.d/  
/etc/ssl/private/  
/etc/pacman.d/gnupg/  
/etc/shadow  
/etc/gshadow  
/etc/shadow-  
/etc/gshadow-  
/etc/.pwd.lock  
/etc/sudoers  
/etc/libaudit.conf  
/etc/crypttab

Keep Duplicati-server.sqlite (job definitions).  
The remaining Duplicati \*.sqlite files are local indexes and rebuild from the destination.

{CacheFiles} already skips ~/.cache (~3.4G) and Duplicati control\_dir\_v2.

The /etc paths above are excluded on both jobs (ws02 config → SSD and  
ws02 config → NAS). Duplicati runs as carl, so anything under /etc that  
is root-only (shadow, sudoers, crypttab, gnupg private keys, ssl/private,  
fwupd.conf, etc.) is excluded to avoid permission-denied warnings.  
CUPS and NetworkManager files are still staged under  
Documents/ws02-restore/etc-restricted/.

## Before the first run (needs sudo)

Duplicati runs as carl and cannot read NetworkManager connections or CUPS  
printer files. Copy them into Documents so they are included with /home:

sudo cp -a “/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/.”  
/home/carl/Documents/ws02-restore/etc-restricted/NetworkManager/system-connections/  
sudo cp -a /etc/cups/printers.conf /etc/cups/classes.conf  
/home/carl/Documents/ws02-restore/etc-restricted/cups/ 2\>/dev/null  
sudo cp -a /etc/cups/ppd/.  
/home/carl/Documents/ws02-restore/etc-restricted/cups/ppd/  
sudo chown -R carl:carl /home/carl/Documents/ws02-restore/etc-restricted

Re-run that copy if you change network or printers.

Readable inventories are already in:  
/home/carl/Documents/ws02-restore/

## What this covers

All of /home (configs, Documents, Downloads, browsers, KeePass, Duplicati,  
keyring, GPG, Signal, Proton Bridge, etc.) and /etc except files carl cannot  
read. Those restricted files are staged under Documents/ws02-restore/.

## Do not restore these wholesale after reinstall

/etc/fstab (full file) — root/home/boot UUIDs change; keep as a recipe  
/etc/default/limine — cryptdevice PARTUUID is machine-specific  
/etc/machine-id  
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf\*  
/boot  
/etc/pacman.d/gnupg  
~/.cache (excluded from the backup)