Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Duplicati is a software that allows the users to make incremental, compressed and encrypted backups via AES-256 , (or restore backups from) on the most popular cloud services, including: Amazon S3, Windows OneDrive, Google Drive, Rackspace Cloud Files. Also, the application has support for WebDAV, SSH or FTP, for backuping to OwnCloud or Box.com.
The latest version available is Duplicati 1.3.4, which comes with the below changes/fixes:
Added: Commands for command line can be exported from UI. When you create a new backup job or edit an existing one, on the last page of the assistant you will get a tab that shows you the command to run the same job from a command line.
- Fixed: Restore to a new machine also restored paths from the old machine.
- Fixed: Better detection of invalid filenames.
- Fixed: Crash when source folders contained no files.
- Fixed: snapshot-policy=auto and usn-policy=auto now work properly.
- Fixed: Restore crashed when advanced option –force was set.
- Fixed: Improved the way settings override eachother.
- Fixed: Installer now creates a desktop shortcut.
- Fixed: Possible cause for “Error: The manifest file … indicates that there should be x volumes, but the file list indicates y” with SSH backend fixed.
- Fixed: Exit code is always “0″.
In this article I will show you how to install Duplicati 1.3.4 on Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Debian 8 Jessie and Debian 7 Wheezy.
Because it is not available via any repository or PPA, we have download the deb package and install it via command-line. I prefer gdebi over dpkg due to the fact that it also handles dependencies.
How to install Duplicati 1.3.4 on either 32 bit or 64 bit Ubuntu, Debian or derivative systems:
$ sudo apt-get install gdebi
$ wget http://duplicati.googlecode.com/files/Duplicati%201.3.4.deb -O duplicati-201.3.4.deb
$ sudo gdebi duplicati-201.3.4.deb
After the installation has been done, open duplicati and follow the instructions for the GUI.
Optional, to remove duplicati, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove duplicati