Try to setup a backup job.
The backup is directed with SFTP to a synology server.
Created a duplicati user and a shared folder on the server.
Verified synology part: Logged in on the server with the duplicati user and can create and add folders/files.
On LinuxMint Client installed duplicati software.
Create a backup job. In step 2 Backup destination.
Testing connection is successful. Verified in synology log.
In the test connection sequence duplicati asks “Create folder ?”
After ok, I end up with error: Failed to connect: Permission denied
With what sort of paths? Simple file names? Arbitrary paths starting with / (which sound problematic because it probably won’t let you escape from the assigned root directory)?
Did you look on the Synology in some privileged way to see where created files landed?
To give an example with a different sftp client and server, I configured user root directory.
Login and pwd says I’m at /, but on the system I’m actually in my assigned root directory.
Maybe you’re asking Duplicati to make a new folder two levels deep, and it can’t do that?
Will you only ever have one Duplicati backup? If not, you can try with Path on server as a no-slash-present subfolder for a particular backup. For single backup, use blank, then get:
Well there are some ideas. Your first sign of problem was “Create folder”, meaning that Duplicati wasn’t finding whatever structure you set up. You can troubleshoot from there, creating folders until Duplicati Test connection aligns with the plan that you pre-created.
