Pause and unpause duplicati at certain hours

[Brad_Baker]

I use an ISP that caps my bandwidth during certain hours, but during low usage hours I have unlimited bandwidth.

As such I would like to pause and unpause duplicati during those timeframes. Is there some way to do that?

I found this: duplicati/pause-resume.py at master · duplicati/duplicati · GitHub but it doesn’t seem to work. When I call it I get:

Something went wrong – 401 Not logged in

Is there something else I need to do to login first?

Thanks
Brad

[JonMikelV]

@Brad_Baker

Something went wrong – 401 Not logged in

I haven’t actually used this script before but I’m guessing @Pectojin or @kenkendk will have a suggestion for you.

For what it’s worth, a feature like you describe has been requested a few times already:

Backups only during a certain time frame?

Just to link forum and github pages together I’ve collected all the relevant links I could find Scheduling pauses / throttle is also requested on github on #2980 and #2921 and there is even a request to have it check your if laptop is plugged into power or on a metered connection on #2115 Now we just need someone with the time to implement all these good ideas

I have just added a $5 bounty for this feature at https://www.bountysource.com/issues/52436819-feature-request-bandwith-limit-based-on-schedule (just to kick things off). Please consider adding to it to help make it happen!
Bandwith limit based on schedule [$35] · Issue #2921 · duplicati/duplicati · GitHub

[Pectojin]

The script is fairly simple and doesn’t support logging into Duplicati with a password.

You can use this GitHub - Pectojin/duplicati_client: A command line client for controlling the Duplicati Server

It supports login, so you just have to store the password in a parameters file and then you can use it in your script to login and pause the backups.