How to back up with Duplicati to Exoscale Object Storage
Duplicati
Overview
Duplicati is easy to use. This step by step guide will help you to get started quickly.
Duplicati was designed for online backups from scratch and is not only data efficient but also handles network issues nicely. The backup client allows to resume interrupted backups and regularly tests the content of backups. This allows an early detection of broken backups on corrupt storage systems.
A graphical user interface with a wizard-style interface as well as a command-line version for usage in headless environments is provided by Duplicati. Both interfaces use the same core and thus have the same set of features and capabilities.
The service is compatible with Linux as well as Windows.
Setup
Linux / Ubuntu
- Create an Exoscale SOS Bucket to store your backups
- Create an IAM Key to have access to your Exoscale SOS Bucket
- Install the needed packages on Ubuntu (see the Duplicati documentation for details)
For this guide we use the following commands:
wget https://updates.duplicati.com/beta/duplicati_2.0.6.3-1_all.deb apt install ./duplicati_2.0.6.3-1_all.deb
Change /etc/default/duplicati to add webservice part, please restrict access to it over security group settings
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root@vm2backup:~# cat /etc/default/duplicati
# Defaults for duplicati initscript
# sourced by /etc/init.d/duplicati
# installed at /etc/default/duplicati by the maintainer scripts
#
# This is a POSIX shell fragment
#
# Additional options that are passed to the Daemon.
DAEMON_OPTS="--webservice-interface=any --webservice-port=8200 --portable-mode"
Enable and start Duplicati service afterwards
root@vm2backup:~# vi /etc/default/duplicati
root@vm2backup:~# systemctl enable duplicati.service
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/duplicati.service → /lib/systemd/system/duplicati.service.
root@vm2backup:~# systemctl daemon-reload
root@vm2backup:~# systemctl start duplicati.service
root@vm2backup:~# systemctl status duplicati.service
duplicati.service - Duplicati web-server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/duplicati.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2022-06-01 10:46:52 UTC; 4s ago
Main PID: 14187 (mono)
Tasks: 16 (limit: 4672)
Memory: 33.3M
CGroup: /system.slice/duplicati.service
├─14187 DuplicatiServer /usr/lib/duplicati/Duplicati.Server.exe --webservice-interface=any --webservice-port=8200 --portable-mode
└─14207 /usr/bin/mono-sgen /usr/lib/duplicati/Duplicati.Server.exe --webservice-interface=any --webservice-port=8200 --portable-mode
Jun 01 10:46:52 vm2backup systemd[1]: Started Duplicati web-server.
- Connect to the webinterface of Duplicati to configure your backup
Change to S3 for destination
In this example we are using a bucket in BG-SOF-1 to store our backups
Select “NO”
Select “YES”
If you run backups from multiple instances to the same bucket, please create separate folder for each instance (e.g.: vmbackup/”instancename”)
Select folders and files which you want to backup
Define a schedule
Choose your retention
Confirm storing of passphrase
Click “Run now” to start the backup immediately
Duplicati starts the backup to your bucket
Restore files from the backup
Choose restore source
Select files to restore
Set restore options
Restore starts
Check restore on vm2backup
root@vm2backup:~# cd /tmp/restore/
root@vm2backup:/tmp/restore# ls -ltr
total 15528
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15898608 Jun 17 2021 duplicati_2.0.6.3-1_all.deb
root@vm2backup:/tmp/restore#