# Setting up OneDrive (personal)

**URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/setting-up-onedrive-personal/588
**Category:** How-To
**Tags:** hosting-services
**Created:** [September 12, 2017, 10:42am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/setting-up-onedrive-personal/588 "2017-09-12T10:42:51Z")
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### Author: ![ts678](https://forum.duplicati.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@ts678](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/ts678)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/setting-up-onedrive-personal/588/28 "2018-11-09T15:21:03Z")

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> [@BatterPudding](#):
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> Are you saying that all of my OneDrive backups are now useless

Absolutely not, It’s an Application Programming Interface (API) change as described by Microsoft in my [link](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/rest-api/concepts/migrating-from-live-sdk?view=odsp-graph-online), however when this forced migration happens, they will be inaccessible until you reconnect using the v2 API.

> [@BatterPudding](#):
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> And if you are saying that this upgrade will trash the old backups that doesn’t really make sense to me.

Absolutely not, and you don’t even need to move files around (as other destination changes might require).

> [@BatterPudding](#):
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> So it surprises me to hear you say that it will not migrate from OneDrive v1 to v2

Not saying that. I mean Duplicati just won’t change the destination type for you. You must do that yourself, however for the small companies you support, I guess you’ll offer directions (see “gain some experience”).

> [@BatterPudding](#):
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> [ts678](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/ts678) has basically scared me off from going near the experimental releases.

These are standard precautions, and the difficulty of downgrades applies to Beta as well. It’s difficult, so it’s important that Beta be good quality. Achieving that is especially important given forced OneDrive migration.

> [@Release: 2.0.4.1 (experimental) 2018-11-08](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/release-2-0-4-1-experimental-2018-11-08/5235/5):
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> Yes, if nothing bad is reported, I will make a beta build identical to the experimental.

So basically this Experimental could be last test call before Beta. Canary user base is probably far less than Beta (even though v2 came out on April 2 in [2.0.3.4 canary](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/release-2-0-3-4-canary-2018-04-02/3084), exposure is limited), so I’m _trying_ to encourage (not scare off) testers of Experimental. There are risks, thus precautions, but better to discover issues early. Not everyone is willing and able to do a test install and meaningful test, but here’s a chance for any who are.

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