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Duplicati vs iperius backup11/25/2023 ![]() The next step asks me “Where do you want to restore the files to?” and I can pick the original location, or save to a new location. There is also a search field to search for the files. If I go into my Google Drive folder, I can then choose to restore a specific file or folder. If I go into the Restore menu, I can select to restore from a specific Google Drive folder. It’s going to be ridiculously difficult for you to find these movies without knowing when they were backed up. If you back them up with Duplicati and then delete them from the local disk you will have to write down or remember when you backed up the file to even find it in your backup. Furthermore, I use Duplicati to backup to other clouds and my NAS as well, there are multiple reasons here. The fact that the files get chopped up and encrypted, means that I don’t have to worry about admins having access to my files. My Google Drive storage is a business account and I don’t want the IT admins snooping in on my data. Main reason I’m using Duplicati is because of the encryption it does. I haven’t actually restored a file before, but I did go through the restore menu to look at what it’s like. If I were to restore that 20GB file, I’m guessing it’ll either let me download a single 20GB file or download 1000 files and merge them into one. If not a 2-way sync, then the 1000 files will just stay on the server. If I delete the file on the local disk, then I presume the 1000 files on the server will get deleted if it’s a 2-way sync. But I don’t understand how that is relevant to a 1-way or 2-way sync? If I backup a 20GB file, it gets chopped into say 1000 smaller ones and are uploaded on the server. Yes, I understand that Duplicati chops the original file into smaller ones, compresses them and encrypts them. These are just some examples of 1-way and 2-way (mirror) sync. I only delete it from my local disk to free up space and I don’t need to do that on the server side. If I delete the movie from my local disk, I don’t want Duplicati to also delete it from the server. If I’ve downloaded a movie and it is somewhat decent, I’d back them up and add it to my collection. I don’t care if I have a movie collection full of AAA and meh movies. Movies folder - compared to photos, movies aren’t important to me. ![]() When I have time later on, I can go through and remove the ones I don’t like. I just want to dump my photos onto my local disk, have them backed up automatically so that I have a copy. Why don’t I just delete the photos I don’t like, prior to backing them up? Well, habit is one thing, plus I don’t have all the time to do this every time I add photos to the folder. I don’t want to have to go into my Google Drive and then search for the photo and delete it. I want this to be reflected on the server as well. Every now and then, I will go into the Photos folder on my local drive and delete photos that I don’t like. Duplicati is configured to run a backup on the Photos folder at a certain time every week. Photos folder - I dumps photos taken from my phone and camera into this folder. ![]() I have certain folders that I need to be backed up in specific ways: I just need a rough recommendation / template to follow. I’ve read some forum posts about this and they get a bit technical. For this, I’ve configured the chunk to be 500MB. I also have some Veeam backups that are around 25GB single file. Why not swap it for a bigger SSD, or download files to a NAS, or whatever? Well, that’s beside the point…Īnd as a side question, what is the recommended block/chunk size to configure for large files? I’ve currently set it to 100MB for video files (they are around 80~150MB each and total size of the folder is about 49GB). I want to just backup whatever files I have on this 32GB SSD and wipe it so I can get more free space. ![]() On the local side however, I sometimes download files to my M2 SSD (32GB), which is of course tiny. Is there a way to configure the settings so that if a file/folder gets deleted from the source, Duplicati doesn’t automatically delete the same file/folder on the destination? I backup my data to Google Drive (I have unlimited storage), so I don’t really care about storage space issues on the server side. I understand that Duplicati does a 2-way sync, i.e it mirrors the source to the destination. It’s a fantastic tool, but the documentations are a bit lacking, so I’m hoping someone can help me out with a few questions… I’ve only just recently found out about Duplicati and started using it as of this week.
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