I’m now a bit lost in the different documentation projects that are available. I like to learn more about Duplicati and my usual method is to read the documentation of a project and start to improve it. I started to read about the dlist and dblock formats.
On GitHub - duplicati/duplicati: Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud! there is a link to docs.duplicati.com. It also says you can contribute at kees-z/DuplicatiDocs. However, the content of the two seems to be completely different! The content of docs dot duplicati dot com seems to be available at duplicati/documentation, but at that location I can’t push my changes to make a PR to improve it. The kees-z one seems to be available at forum posts like How the backup process works.
Which one is leading? Which one is most helpful to extend?
(sorry for the formatting, I can only post 3 links)
Got an exact URL for that? I can’t find it directly in either of the links you gave.
Indirect has https://docs.duplicati.com/detailed-descriptions/scripts
Sample scripts extracted from Community Docs: https://github.com/kees-z/DuplicatiDocs
which is earlier (begun around 2018 I think) manual maintained by a volunteer.
Pieces of it are still used in the end-of-2024 new docs created by Duplicati, Inc. personnel, who would be the ones to comment on contributing (including PRs).
The old manual requested pull requests. I don’t know the plan for new manual.
I was initially reluctant to comment here, because it’s not my area, but your PR:
will require developer help, so maybe someone will stop by here with answers.
Until then, my guess is the new manual (which is still incomplete) is their focus.
The situation is that many years ago, @kees-z identified the lack of a manual as a major pain point and decided to write a manual. Since the Duplicati project had nothing like that we agreed to use that documentation as the official Duplicati documentation. This documentation has received updates over the years, but a year ago I started a company around Duplicati, and as part of that I got more resources to devote to documentation.
While the documentation so far has been a great help, I decided to rewrite the documentation and keep it in the Duplicati organization.
From my own perspective, Duplicati Inc will work on the new docs repo.
That sounds like there is a configuration issue on our side. Can you not fork the repo and make a PR?