![]() According to Wikipedia you focus on Duplicati 2.0 since 2013, so it’s 7 years in which Duplicati 2.0 still didn’t reach a stable version. Is Duplicati 2.0 stable? You guys promote it as the only supported, yet not stable (beta) version of Duplicati. Thus I want to ask for honest feedback, whether the issues of Duplicati 1.3.4 have been fixed in Duplicati 2.0. ![]() However, the fact that you guys still don’t consider Duplicati 2.0 stable (according to Wikipedia you focus on Duplicati 2.0 since 2013?) and Duplicati 1.3.4 was a total nightmare, I’m not so sure about whether I can really trust the promises made on the website. It’s a kinda old software and the stuff I read about Duplicati 2.0 looks promising. To be fair, we’re talking about Duplicati 1.3.4. I mean… Wow… A 27% success rate in >160 hours. Restoring 720 GB of compressed data took about 7 days, running 24/7, even though 35 backups failed somewhere in the process due to corrupted volumes. Another very common error was Duplicati failing to restore a diff or snapshot file. Most errors were caused by corrupt volume files, not just yielding all following incremental backups useless, even yielding all following data in the same backup useless (for example, the first volume of a 22.64 GB full backup was corrupt, yielding the whole (!) full backup as well as the following 4 incremental backups useless). When ignoring errors which were caused by Duplicati not being able to restore symlinks, there are 20 close-to-fully-restored backups (10 full backups, 10 incremental backups). Out of 73 backups of a single machine (16 full backups, 57 incremental backups) there are just 3 backups (sic!) that had no errors. But after a lot of pain I got it working. Duplicati’s CLI is rather… unorthodox to use. A VM with Windows XP or Windows 7? No chance, Duplicati can’t restore from network drives and copying 720 GB compressed backups to a VHD is no option. Since I couldn’t run Duplicati 1.3.4 on newer machines I tried virtual machines. Backup software is long-term software, restoring a 10 years old backup must not be a problem. ![]() I know, you guys no longer support Duplicati 1.3.4 and this is totally fine, but since you decided not to maintain BC, I must be able to run it somewhere at least. However, due to my experiences I have very specific questions:įirst of all it was close to impossible to get Duplicati 1.3.4 running. But I’m still very open to Duplicati 2.0 - Duplicati 1.3.4 is old and I don’t want to generalize my experiences. Thus I’m pretty skeptical towards Duplicati 2.0 whether it meets its promises - Duplicati 1.3.4 made a lot promises, too, but didn’t deliver. I’m not going to mince matters here, so please excuse the harsh words, but Duplicati 1.3.4 is the worst backup software I’ve ever seen. However, since Duplicati 2.0 isn’t compatible with Duplicati 1.3.4 we had to move all old Duplicati 1.3.4 backups to a new platform, requiring us to restore all old backups and creating new ones in the process. Duplicati 2.0 sounds very, very promising! requires “hacks” like WSL), so it isn’t on the table. ![]() However, Borg isn’t available for Windows (resp. We’re talking about Windows machines only, on Linux machines we rely on Borg and are very happy with it. We’re currently in the decision process about what backup software to use on our Windows machines in the future and found, that some of our users were using Duplicati 1.3.4 before - so it seems natural to check Duplicati 2.0. 1 when talking about backup software: How reliable is Duplicati 2.0? I know this is going to sound a bit harsh… But it’s nevertheless question no.
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