I have a client which has 600 computers, I want to back up all the computers using duplicati (I thought it was very good and effective). . the fact is that I want to make the transfer of the files using the WebDAV protocol, but I am presenting a problem.
I am backing up the backup on a Qnap NAS server. When I make the backup of computer 1 to the NAS, it is perfect. but when I backup the computer 2 to the NAS I get an error when I save the backup in a sub-folder.
Question:
1- the failure occurs because different folders must be made for each computer, that is, can not all backup copies be grouped in a single folder?
2- Using the FTP protocol does not present the same error, is there any difference in the configuration with WebDAV?
1 - Each computer (and even each backup job defined on each computer) must store its data in an individual location.
If you must have this feature, Duplicacy supports something called “lock free deduplication” which allows for different computers to back up to the exact same destination. I have not tested it myself but it sounds interesting.
2 - I don’t see why FTP would be different in this regard. Duplicati’s engine does not allow backups from 2 or more different backup sets/computers to be stored in the exact same location.
A string used to prefix the filenames of the remote volumes, can be used to store multiple backups in the same remote folder. The prefix cannot contain a hyphen (-), but can contain all other characters allowed by the remote storage. Default value: “duplicati”
That way he could just upload all the backups to a single WEBDAV target … assuming his file system supports a large number of files per directory.
At the moment I am doing the tests with WEBDAV, since it is as I said, with whom I have the problem with the subfolders
As you can see the image has actually worked for me, I want to thank you.
The same question I ask, when I make the first backup on computer 1, this works fine, but when making the same backup on computer 2 in a subfolder, it generates an error, where it says that there are 3 missing files.
example: I have 2 computers each with a backup via WEBDAV, the computer 1 performs the backup without any new, the computer 2 tries to make the backup in a subfolder. (I decided to make backup copies in subfolders when I generated an error sending all the copies in a single folder). when the second version of the backup copy is made in computer 1, it does not end indicating that 3 files are not found. . can not get clear information about the error, because it only shows me the names of the files that are missing. .
I suppose that due to this situation, and due to this problem, there is the PREFIX parameter
So it happens to me with all the computers to which WEBDAV sent the security copy
I have tested this with my Webdav server hosted by FreeNAS. It works just fine. It may have something to do with the Webdav implementation on your QNAP.
