Hi!
I’m new to this backup tool and new to this forum.
I was playing around with Duplicati (2.0.4.12) and created a backup successfully via WebDAV on the “1&1 online Speicher” that my VDSL Provider gives me.
I could manage to backup and restore… All went smooth.
Then I was thinking about how to save the configuration of this backup to reconfigure it e.g. on another computer, if mine crashes…
I found the “Configuration” > “Export” menu and got a .json file with all the configuration in it. (Aside of the “Passphrase” … another story).
Then I removed the configuration to see, if I can reproduce it from the .json file I got.
I started the wizard to add a new backup and there I chose the .json file I had.
I also asked to import the meta info.
But:
The configuration was not paresed correctly. The mask to enter the WebDAV was mixed up:
I think the essential info in the .json file is:
"TargetURL": "webdavs://sd2dav.1und1.de/Duplicati_Test1?auth-username=xxxxxxxxxxx@online.de"
(xxxxxxxxxxxis a replacement for my account there)
When I get to the server configuration I get:
Server and Port: online.de / empty
Path on Server: empty
Username: sd2dav.1und1.de/Duplicati_Test1?auth-username=xxxxxxxxxxx
So you can see, the parser seems to be confused somehow.
May someone can fix this?
Michael
Hi @Moellney, welcome to the forum!
Sorry to hear you ran into this issue with testing - are you looking for direct help getting your backups working again or is this a general problem report?
Hi,
thank you for offering help.
At the moment I’m in evaluation phase.
So this was a test, how to come by situations, where the original computer is not usable anymore.
I use VEEAM endpoint backup at the moment (for disaster recovery scenarios).
But I have a dual boot system (Win10 / Ubunutu 18.04) and wanted to backup the essential files (Photos, Source Files, Documents, …) to a safe place out of my house.
WebDAV would be one option. Another one I will be looking at will be BackBlaze…
So this was just a feedback to the developers… a kind of bug description.
Michael
Thanks for the report! I’ll see if we can get this verified and a GitHub ticket entered. 
Thanks
Btw. Can I follow the ticket, is it public?
If so, do you have a link or should I enter the ticket?
I have not verified the issue (so I can write a sensible ticket) so haven’t actually put it in yet.
All tickets are public over at Issues · duplicati/duplicati · GitHub - and you’re welcome to create it yourself! When I do get around to verifying I’ll just add my “happens to me as well” comment.
Thank you for the hint.
I created a bug entry: #3619.
I hope I gave enough information.
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