Duplicacy prune However, every command I run in CLI yields this: $ duplicacy list -a Repository has not been initialized But wasn’t the repository already initialized by the Web-UI??? Specifically, I created some test backups in B2 using the Web-UI, and now need to clean them. Does this mean the snapshot/file will be deleted and reuploaded in the next backup job? Thanks in advance, Mar 16, 2025 · See more here: prune · gilbertchen/duplicacy Wiki · GitHub. They are combinable – from oldest to youngest: duplicacy prune -keep 0:360 -keep 30:180 -keep 7:30 Oct 6, 2022 · Based on the discussion in the other thread (The "check" command is so slow that it can never finish. Oct 23, 2019 · I’ve read the command docs here: As well as various threads tagged with “prune” which ask similar questions: I believe I understand the algorithm used by the command when executed, however I’m struggling to create a command that reflects what I actually want. You can read more here duplicacy/duplicacy_paper. Let’s go through this piece by piece. Duplicaly already supports Time Machine exclusions, so you don’ have to write any exclusion rules, it “just works”. Feb 8, 2025 · Thanks for the help! I’m still new to using Duplicacy and didn’t realize I needed to set up a separate prune schedule to access additional options. prune -keep 1095:90 -keep 365:30 -keep 1:7 -keep 30:1 Jun 12, 2022 · Hi, I’m just starting with Duplicacy and would like to hear the best practice for when I need to have a Check & Prune job in my time schedule. Jan 7, 2018 · There isn't a way to limit the number of backups to keep, but ff you run backup daily, then duplicacy prune -k 0:2 will remove backups older than 2 days thus will likely keep 2 backups at most. duplicacy/cache. If this is accepted by gilbertchen, I’ll update the prune wiki page, but for now, here’s a snippet of how it will Apr 4, 2025 · Optimal speed settings for backup/ restore | win server 2016 | 500/500 fiber | duplicacy web 1. Run this command on your server from anywhere, it will detect and find . TheBestPessimist 19 September 2018 07:44 #1. -all, -a match against all snapshot IDs. About e-mail notifications: Is this thread still up to date: Email notification ? Or are there any better options to get a notification only if something Nov 12, 2022 · I think if I stick with Duplicacy I will just go the pre-prune script option, Run duplicacy on your Mac, target the same B2 bucket where you backup the rest of the nas. On Windows and macOS, Duplicacy Web Edition is provided as installers. Mar 12, 2024 · duplicacy prune -keep 0:720 -keep 30:360 -keep 7:30 -keep 1:7 -a -exhaustive Schedule. 385 INFO SNAPSHOT Sep 28, 2023 · Please describe what you are doing to trigger the bug: Storage: SFTP duplicacy backup duplicacy prune -keep 1:2 -exhaustive Please describe what you expect to happen (but doesn’t): prune the snapshots Please describe what actually happens (the wrong behaviour): It does prune the snapshots, but additionally I get with every backup and then prune run a huge list of: Deleted file 00 Jan 24, 2018 · PS C:\> duplicacy prune -r 1 Storage set to P:\Backup\duplicacy\ Deleting snapshot PC_C at revision 1 The chunk duplicacy:tldr:51601 duplicacy: Prune revisions, keeping one revision every `n` days for all revisions older than `m` days. The important thing is that there are a number of backup ids which i stopped using 2-3 years ago and waited for them to gradually get pruned, but the last revision Dec 14, 2019 · I would like to set up Duplicacy on 8 Windows computers (small company) to back them up completely to Google G Suite Drive (business plan). Oct 6, 2022 · Duplicacy by default will ignore repositories that have no new backup in the past 7 days, and you can also use the -ignore option to skip certain repositories when deciding the deletion criteria. Since you read the whole prune # how-to, you should have also read the section: Only one repository should run prune. It is designed to simplify the backup process while optimizing storage space by eliminating redundant data. 0. Then you can try out different prune commands. The reasons — it leaves datastore in bad state if interrupted. I think the appropriate command would be duplicacy prune -all -exhaustive -dry-run. Euhm. I run a backup and check every night. Installation. For a test I have installed Duplicacy Web GUI on one PC where I would like to back up 2 internal and 1 external drive which is about 4 TB totally. Mar 8, 2020 · After I ran a scheduled prune operation for the first time with Duplicacy’s GUI, it reported my storage use dropping to 0 in the UI: This was a bit alarming, but everything looked fine on the backend side and after running a check command the UI went back to normal. If a file is backed up and a new revision created say 5 years ago. (see image) What am i doing wrong? Jul 19, 2021 · Edit. I have 2x 1 TB Cloud Storage and I had to delete both storages completely and begin from scratch since prune didn’t work and the storage ran out of space after a while. May 8, 2019 · Hi, I have 2 x prune schedules setup as follows for my 2 storage’s: The problem no snapshots/revisions get deleted…I still have them from Jan 2019, when I shouldn’t have more than 90 days worth… Jul 12, 2022 · And am I correct that running a Prune command in the web UI will merely prune snapshot revisions according to the schedule. Duplicacy shall never ignore input This can be an issue, because Duplicacy is no longer able to deduplicate your backups, potentially resulting in a lot of used storage on Google drive. This means that -keep 7:90 might be too aggressive for your need. For my B2 backups I would love to reduce the frequency of my check schedule, but I’m using Duplicacy Web-UI for handling my cloud backups and so far it seems that if a storage has not had a recent (or recent-enough) check completed then the dashboard view becomes completely useless. So I Oct 5, 2020 · Please describe what you are doing to trigger the bug: With my nightly backup since a week when performing prune operation I got signal killed. This needs to be said strongly so users doesn’t get surprised: When you start using prune, you will lose some deleted files and original versions of changed files. Aug 19, 2018 · Just init a blank test repository, cd to the repo dir and run <path>\duplicacy_prune-test. 3, with CLI 3. pdf at master · gilbertchen/duplicacy · GitHub but the gist of it is that duplicacy is fully concurrent, it has to support weird scenarios where five machines run backup to a specific storage and seven other machines try to prune it at the same time. duplicacy prune -r 1 Deleting snapshot hps_pool2g at revision 1 Fossil collection 1 saved The snapshot hps_pool2g at revision 1 has been removed Jul 30, 2020 · I’m starting to appreciate docker on my home server. duplicacy files. This has frequently been requested (or at least something different than the current -keep logic). Okay, I did it and it went a lot faster now, but it is difficult to say whether that was because it was no longer the first time I ran prune (though none of the previous runs was successful) or because of the multi-thread. I backup a few repository directories and use the same onedrive directory for storage of them all. These are then copied to another computer on the network. Jun 3, 2019 · I’m trying to gauge how often I should prune. Is there a CLI command to remove all these empty folders?. Jul 17, 2019 · duplicacy prune -r 1 -exclusive I checked my google drive and the snapshot and chunks are indeed removed. 8 Support gui , restore , backup , web-ui , amazon-s3 , prune Jun 24, 2019 · [root@mail ~]# . Sep 8, 2017 · Yes, you can remove the subdirectory under the snapshots directory, but this will leave many unreferenced chunks on the storage. The latest version 2. I'm curious to know how others use prune. Is it even necessary? It would be great if you can explain it in easy language what it does :). The user guide for the old GUI version can be found here. I’m requesting some insight into what is going on there. So far everything works great but I am confused with the prune settings. Prune ran and completed jus Duplicacy was developed by Gilbert Chen as a modern alternative to traditional backup solutions. Currently, I’m using Duplicacy with Unraid to back up my weekly backups. Thanks! I take that as a "yes" regarding the last question ;-) Unfortunately, I can't check directly on the storage whether the chunks ever existed there, because if they were there, they would have been deleted by that very same prune action (actually, not exactly the one in the OP but I ran the same in exclusive mode shortly after). Please describe what actually happens (the wrong behaviour): It writes a long list of Deleting snapshot laptop at revision 1038. duplicacy prune -all -threads 30 -keep 0:360 -keep 30:180 -keep 7:30 -keep 1:7 Duplicacy comes with a newly designed web-based GUI that is not only artistically appealing but also functionally powerful. Prune: Weekly or bi-weekly, based on your data change rate. The storage was added using add -copy. I am running a prune and then check daily. The default you can use, depending on how much storage you want to use for old revisions is. Of course first double check the chunk doesn’t exist in the storage, otherwise it is a different issue. Duplicacy Web Edition. Adjust if required duplicacy prune-exhaustive-exclusive-keep 0:120 Feb 20, 2018 · How exactly does the duplicacy prune -all command work? Does it completely ignore the snapshot id or does it apply the given retention policy independently to all the snapshots ids? EDIT: Based on my test, it seems to work per snapshot basis (the other option would not make much sense). duplicacy prune -r 1 Deleting snapshot hps_pool2g at revision 1 Fossil collection 1 saved The snapshot hps_pool2g at revision 1 has been removed Feb 27, 2019 · Hi, I have configured several jobs in the web edition: backup to local storage, hourly copy to wasabi storage, every 4 hours check local storage, daily check wasabi storage, daily prune local storage, daily prune wasabi storage, daily My questions: can I configure all these jobs to run in parallel or do I risk corrupting backups etc by doing so? if yes, can any of them run in parallel without I am using Duplicacy web saspus docker image on a Synology nas. My understanding is that part of a solid backup plan is to perform regular tests of restoring files. While it does take a little while to get used too since the documentation is a little hit and miss (because as versions and features change, the older documentation doesn’t get updated) I have managed to recover what I needed from backups without any errors. Feb 8, 2019 · For this my goal is to run duplicacy every hour, have it email me any errors, and then prune (thin) the backed up data. First, you need to decide between -keep 180:7 and -keep 1:7: for filles older than 7 days, do you want to keep one every half a year or every day? Proably the latter. You may be able to find out when this chunk was deleted from these logs files. I am not sure if I should run for each “storage” or by using the “-all” flag. -r <revision> [+] delete the specified revisions. Check: Daily, early morning before the first backup. It emphasizes deduplication and cloud storage integration. cd repository1 duplicacy backup duplicacy prune -id respostory1 -keep 1:1 duplicacy prune -id respostory1 -keep 0:40 This is repeated nightly. I have never run a “prune” task on any of my backups yet, so it can’t be caused by “prune”. “Missing chunk”), duplicacy-web still runs the prune task the combination of the above 2 bugs have caused me great pain. I’m trying to figure out Duplicacy’s versioning/retention settings (and their limitations). To clean up storage, run duplicacy prune -exhaustive from another client/repository. Moreover, since most cloud storage services do not provide a locking service, the best effort is to use some basic file operations to simulate a lock, but distributed locking is known to be a hard problem and it is unclear how Aug 27, 2018 · Hi, I just started trialing Duplicacy and must say that the prune manual read a big ambiguous for me too until I found -keep n:m -> “Keep 1 snapshot every n days for snapshots older than m days. $ duplicacy prune -keep ${n:m} try on your machine Sep 18, 2018 · I’ll try duplicacy prune -r 20 -threads 6 and see if that changes anything. I am using Duplicacy web saspus docker image on a Synology nas. With my B2 costs going up I just wanted to limit the amount of backups I keep. The problem is that the Jul 2, 2023 · Please describe what you are doing to trigger the bug: I run duplicacy. Jul 2, 2018 · So. which I guess means any snapshots made over 1800 days ago, will be deleted. Then you can use Duplicacy to backup /mnt/user/backups to Jan 8, 2020 · So I’m running into an issue like I did with ARQ backup with duplicacy, my remote storage completely filled up, and I’m unable to prune my backups to free up space. mac. Mar 3, 2023 · I have an hourly backup with a prune policy as follows: -keep 0:365 -keep 24:30 -keep 30:7 -a -threads 30 I believe this should result in no revisions older than a year, then two per month (ish), one per day (ish) then one per hour. I have a batch file which changes to each repository directory one after another and does the backup every night and then finally “prune -all -keep 0:14” to only save the last 14 days. Oct 13, 2019 · If you’ve already deleted the unused snapshots under the snapshots directory in your storage, then you can use a prune to identify unreferenced chunks. Background Have a duplicacy backup going to google team (shared drive). If I never prune, all is fine, backups are fast and life is good Feb 19, 2024 · I’m attempting a Prune job on one storage, which contains four snapshot IDs, and I want to avoid pruning two of the IDs. Word to the Bird Jan 10 12:15AM 2018 Dec 4, 2022 · duplicacy prune -h NAME: duplicacy prune - 根据修订编号、标签和保留策略修剪快照 USAGE: duplicacy prune [command options] OPTIONS: -id <snapshot id> 删除指定 Snapshot ID 的快照而不是默认快照 -all, -a 匹配所有 Snapshot ID -r <revision> [+] 删除指定的修订编号 -t <tag> [+] 删除带有指定标签的 Aug 14, 2024 · Hello, I have a couple of questions about how duplicacy prune works cause it is not clear from the --help. Dec 3, 2022 · Hello, I’m a little confused on how to set up the correct PRUNE with the Webui. Referring to this forum post, which says that prune has to be run using CLI. But seriously, wtf with the retention policy? It’s so confusing, and if you want any Windows / Normal peeps using this, you should really look at making a change. Any guidance on how to achieve Nov 10, 2019 · Hello everyone, I’m trying to set up Prune in the Web Edition, so after a few days, old backups will be removed from my remote storage. Say I run three backups a day and once every week I prune old backups with the following: duplicacy prune -keep 1:2 -all Duplicacy will keep one revision per day for revisions older than 2 days, fine. duplicacy prune [command options] -id <snapshot id> delete revisions with the specified snapshot ID instead of the default one. I'm loving Duplicacy! I purchased a few more licenses for family and friends taking advantage of the deeper discounts on multiple purchases at once. my checks kept failing for months and I never got any emails, and the prunes kept chipping away more snapshots snow Duplicacy is a powerful cloud backup tool that provides efficient and secure data backup and deduplication capabilities. duplicacy/logs. Nov 24, 2018 · # Keep all snapshots younger than 90 days by doing nothing # Keep 1 snapshot every 7 days for snapshots older than 90 days $ duplicacy prune -keep 7:90 # Keep 1 snapshot every 30 days for snapshots older than 180 days $ duplicacy prune -keep 30:180 # Keep no snapshots older than 360 days $ duplicacy prune -keep 0:360 Jul 4, 2021 · Can you check its permission to see if it can be deleted by the account that runs the prune job? I’ve logged in to drive. my checks kept failing for months and I never got any emails, and the prunes kept chipping away more snapshots snow I installed the Duplicacy docker to backup my unraid system to an old synology nas at my mom´s house. 668 INFO RETENTION_POLICY Keep no snapshots older than 1 days 2021-08-21 09:48:57. com:1234/DUPLICACY 2021-08-21 09:48:38. 1 seems to have a less verbose prune, but it decided to resurrect some of the chunks and got as far as snapshot 294 the first time on the new version Dec 29, 2020 · I have read through this post: Fix missing chunks I have cleared the cache, but that did not fix the issue. 8. But what about snapshots newer than 30 days? Will they be removed or kept as is? Mar 10, 2021 · I have been using duplicacy for a week now… It is absolutely amazing. However, there is one thing I think should be handled differently: the behaviour of prune -keep . This simply adds -keep 0:1800 argument to the prune command. Jun 6, 2024 · I am getting a prune failure error due to some sort of permissions issue when I back up my files to Wasabi. The log of the failed check command does not tell me Oct 7, 2020 · Immediate duplicacy copy from SFTP to cloud storage (OneDrive in my case) executed via a post backup script (see here for info: Pre Command and Post Command Scripts) duplicacy check every evening; duplicacy prune every morning; I’ve got some scheduling logic so backups won’t overlap in there too (I’m using the CLI version). There is an option to delete snapshots older than 1800 days. ps1 20 to create 20 day’s worth of backups. The prune options were -keep 0:1800 -keep 7:30 -keep 1:7 -a. I have tried to run the prune-command, but no storage free’s up. duplicacy/logs folder. /duplicacy_linux_x64_2. Also remember that Duplicacy is dealing with remote object storage with B2 while Restic has full Gigabit Ethernet access to a local NAS device. I see lots of Fossil collection 1 saved output Apr 25, 2021 · duplicacy prune -keep 30:180 #对于超过180天的版本，每30天保留一个版本。 duplicacy prune -keep 0:360 #不保留超过360天的版本。 #多个-keep I installed the Duplicacy docker to backup my unraid system to an old synology nas at my mom´s house. I wan’t to delete every revision that is older than 30 days. 719 INFO STORAGE_SET Storage set to sftp://me@domain. So I’ve created a prune schedule on it with the flag -keep 0:30 The 30 days have passed however and the email alerts I’m getting from Duplicacy are saying: INFO RETENTION_POLICY Keep no snapshots older than 30 days INFO SNAPSHOT_NONE No snapshot to delete So the policy is being applied but nothing May 29, 2018 · Backup/Prune information. Duplicacy’s -keep command controls what to keep – e. Sep 19, 2018 · prune. I used to run duplicati and this had an export configuration function which mean in case of disaster (OS drive failure) I could get duplicati running on a second machine, import my backup configuration and run a restore (well, the restore part was the part which took Oct 17, 2023 · I’ve got a backup going to a B2 bucket that i’d like to keep only 30 days of backups for. Automated backups with Docker and duplicacy, with backup rotation, email notifications - azinchen/duplicacy Jun 24, 2022 · Pruning won’t free much space unless your data is very volatile. With command prompt set to duplicacy’s install folder I tried “duplicacy_web_win_x64_1. Mar 28, 2024 · I have roughly 350 revisions. I’m using the following options: -exclusive -keep 0:90 -keep 7:30 -keep 1:3 -ignore clonezilla -ignore scyllams_part The results are that nothing gets pruned in the storage, and I suspect I’m using the “-ignore” option incorrectly. 3. I read this in the wiki: Prune command details “For fossils collected in the fossil collection step to be eligible for safe deletion in the fossil deletion step, at least one new snapshot from each snapshot id must be created between two runs of the prune Mar 26, 2021 · The logging behavior is inconsistent between back-up and prune commands. Sadly when i trigger a Prune with the command -all, on my remote site no data is removed, i’m not getting any storage back. Backup took a while (total 500Gb) but after initial long period; the incremental is quite ok. But as I understood it removes it just from the dropdown menu in the restore tab. It May 24, 2019 · I have been very impressed with Duplicacy. Jul 30, 2023 · duplicacy prune -r 1 # 删除修订号为 1 的备份 duplicacy prune -t quick # 删除所有带 'quick' 标签的备份 duplicacy prune -keep 1:7 # 对超过 7 天的备份，每天保留 1 个 duplicacy prune -keep 7:30 # 对超过 30 天的备份，每 7 天保留 1 个 duplicacy prune -keep 0:180 # 删除超过 180 天的所有备份 Feb 7, 2018 · This is somehow related with (part of) this other issue, but I’ll open a new thread to keep things focused. I ran some tests using Web-UI. $ duplicacy prune -r 1 # Remove the backup with revision number 1 $ duplicacy prune -t quick # Remove all backups with the tag 'quick' $ duplicacy prune -keep 1:7 # Keep 1 backup per day for backups older than 7 days $ duplicacy prune -keep 7:30 # Keep 1 backup every 7 days for backups older than 30 days $ duplicacy prune -keep 0:180 # Remove Dec 10, 2019 · Setup: Backup server with storage and locally mounted repositories. What I did is to create a script that stops all running containers, then use rsync to backup the appdata to /mnt/user/backups. I forgot to prune. Duplicacy comes with a newly designed web-based GUI that is not only artistically appealing but also functionally powerful. Have about 7 revisions and having the prune operation to delete oldest and prune the backup store. My remote storage is 100% full. And lastly, perhaps when pruning duplicity should delete snapshots first, and chunks last: otherwise my datastore is now in a bit bad shape – the chunks were deleted, but snapshots not, and now check fails due to those ghost snapshots. But I am still unable to quite fully understand how it works and how is it able to work lock-free. I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations on how to automate testing a restore. This removes the second snapshot. At the end of the backup of all ZFS pools on the FreeNAS box I run a prune command. duplicacy on macOS, or HKCU\Software\Duplicacy on Windows (or HKLM\Software\Duplicacy if Duplicacy is installed for all users). I am using the Web GUI in a Docker environment. when I would make backups a couple of times per day and also run this prune command again and again, it wouldn’t delete the multiple daily backups for a week? (won’t configure it like that, just asking Aug 17, 2018 · Examples: duplicacy prune -keep 1:7 # Keep 1 snapshot per day for snapshots older than 7 days duplicacy prune -keep 7:30 # Keep 1 snapshot every 7 days for snapshots older than 30 days duplicacy prune -keep 30:180 # Keep 1 snapshot every 30 days for snapshots older than 180 days duplicacy prune -keep 0:360 # Keep no snapshots older than 360 days Feb 20, 2019 · Quick overview NAME: duplicacy prune - Prune snapshots by revision, tag, or retention policy USAGE: duplicacy prune [command options] OPTIONS: -id <snapshot id> delete snapshots with the specified id instead of the default one -all, -a match against all snapshot IDs -r <revision> [+] delete … Mar 13, 2020 · I am having some problems understanding the terminology. Click ok them to edit. duplicacy-util Running the web-based GUI (Duplicacy Web Edition) to restore, check, copy, or prune existing backups So you can set up the backups using the CLI, and still have the pretty restore screen for when you need to recover data without paying anything. Unfortunately despite my weekly prune my storage got packed completely full and now in the web ui I can’t prune. Running a prune with the following job will prune the revision/file or not? My understanding is that 0 snapshots are kept after 3 years. I Sep 24, 2024 · I would appreciate if someone could help me understand prune and what revisions are kept. I basically want anything in my cloud storage that has been deleted from my local machine 60 days ago should be removed the cloud storage. Please describe what you expect to happen (but doesn’t): Would expect it to keep the youngest revision Aug 3, 2018 · I downloaded the latest version, ran a backup, then a prune. Then on the next check those snapshots are obviously missing chunks. Feb 27, 2019 · Hi, I have configured several jobs in the web edition: backup to local storage, hourly copy to wasabi storage, every 4 hours check local storage, daily check wasabi storage, daily prune local storage, daily prune wasabi storage, daily My questions: can I configure all these jobs to run in parallel or do I risk corrupting backups etc by doing so? if yes, can any of them run in parallel without I am using Duplicacy web saspus docker image on a Synology nas. Why does not duplicacy sort them internally then? Why give a user a chore and opportunity to make mistakes? Unsorted configuration won’t work: out of order keep parameters wont have any effect. Running various apps and services in a container allows me to keep my operating system (Debian/OpenMediaVault) as clean as possible without having to run lots of virtual machines. I've heard from some that prune is not really useful or necessary and may be potentially problematic. So I set up prune to run once a week with the following parameters -keep 0:365 -keep 7:30 -keep 1:7 -a. Nov 27, 2021 · On a separate note, Prune must be way more verbose and transparent: duplicacy knows how many files to delete, so why is there no progress? Also, hitting API rate limit shall be logged as warning at default logging level. Replace delete all -keep arguments and replace them with your own -keep 0:2. Yeah. I have the following options enabled on a prune command set to run after every scheduled backup: -d | -keep 7:7 -keep 0:30 -a -exhaustive -threads 10 I interpret this as follows: Keep one revision every 7 days after seven days Keep no revision after 30 days Dec 12, 2024 · New to Duplicacy. Aug 15, 2022 · With duplicacy in current state of affairs I don’t use prune. Jul 21, 2020 · duplicacy prune - Prune revisions by number, tag, or retention policy. ”. So it is clear that I can set all kinds of sophisticated configurations such as duplicacy prune -keep 0:360 -keep 30:180 -keep 7:30 -keep 1:7 which will 1 snapshot per day for snapshots Jun 25, 2020 · As an example, on my desktop i personally run backup every 20 min, check every month and prune every week. Backup command seems to log to stdout. I'm currently still doing initial ingestion of my data to B2 and am not running prune commands as of yet. Yep. Is my assumption correct it will not prune backups newer than 7 days? e. However, quite a few empty folders remain in the /chunks and in /snapshots. But when I Feb 2, 2024 · #!/bin/bash export DUPLICACY_DVA_PASSWORD = xxx cd /mnt/user/Bowen duplicacy backup -stats -storage dva duplicacy prune -keep 0:360 -keep 30:180 -keep 7:30 -keep 1:7 $ duplicacy prune -r 1 # Remove the snapshot with revision number 1 $ duplicacy prune -t quick # Remove all snapshots with the tag 'quick' $ duplicacy prune -keep 1:7 # Keep 1 snapshot per day for snapshots older than 7 days $ duplicacy prune -keep 7:30 # Keep 1 snapshot every 7 days for snapshots older than 30 days $ duplicacy prune -keep 0: Jun 28, 2024 · Hi, I submitted a pull request (PR) today to duplicacy to add a prune option -keep-max that allows you to specify a tag and how many snapshot revisions to keep for that tag, etc. Reference: Oct 16, 2017 · First thought was to prune the whole storage and start fresh. The prune command is the only command that can delete chunks, and by default Duplicacy always produces a prune log and saved it under the . Is this intended? If yes, why? This Empty folders after prune partially answer my question. Early development focused on building a robust content-addressable storage backend that can handle concurrent backups from multiple clients. 2 (175ADB). “I’d definitely not tinker with the /chunks directory if I were you - if you still have any backup data in the Jan 13, 2025 · I’m using Web Edition 1. Nov 12, 2021 · You can delete orphaned snapshots manually (from subfolder “snapshots”) on OneDrive, then clear local duplicacy cache, and run prune -exhaustive to cleanup orphaned chunks. When I run duplicacy prune -keep 30:30 then it will remove all snapshots that are older than 30 days except one for each 30days period, sure. So you would want to transform your prune command into. 7. . The confusing part is that I specify ‘-storage b2-support’ - this corresponds to a block in the JSON preferences Feb 21, 2022 · Yes. Aug 21, 2021 · Running prune command from /cache/localhost/all Options: [-log prune -storage STORAGE -id Unraid-Containers -keep 0:1 -keep 1:2] 2021-08-21 09:48:37. What is happening The web Mar 16, 2025 · From prune documentation: Multiple -keep options must be sorted by their mvalues in decreasing order. Can someone please tell me if I’m right with the following command and expected results? 😅 duplicacy prune -keep 0:364 -keep 24:182 -keep 7:91 -keep 1:1 Keep 1 snapshot per day for snapshots Apr 11, 2021 · Hi, i just performed a backup as a test and later i did duplicacy prune -exclusive -r 1 The revision is removed but in the chunks dir on the storage i still see some empty chunk dirs. -keep 30:14 applies to backup snapshots older than 14 days and keeps one version every 30 days. 1 prune -keep 0:1 Repository set to / Storage set to b2://mail/ Keep no snapshots older than 1 days Fossil collection 1 found Fossils from collection 1 can't be deleted because deletion criteria aren't met Fossil collection 2 found Fossils from collection 2 can't be deleted because deletion criteria aren Check if the chunk was not deleted by prune. acrosync. If you wanted to actually remove the unreferenced chunks, then remove the -dry-run option. But their presence indicates user wanted them. I would just increase storage space on your server instead. I don’t necessarily know how many repositories there are per storage, there may be more than one though in this case there is only one. All the most popular commercial backup software isn’t this confusing! Jan 9, 2022 · (1) duplicacy-web does not send an email on failure for a check task (2) if a schedule has a check task and a prune task, and if the check task fails (e. 1. Jan 3, 2020 · duplicacy prune - Prune revisions by number, tag, or retention policy. Does this mean I should never prune twice between all repositories backing up? Can I get prune to not ignore stale repositories (and is this what the -all option does)? duplicacy prune -all (is PC2_user_docs still auto-ignored after 7 days?) Sep 8, 2019 · Please describe what you are doing to trigger the bug: Running prune -keep 1:1 on snapshot with multiple revisions during the day keeps the oldest revision. I also find empty folders in /. By running the check command daily and the prune command weekly or bi-weekly, you ensure backup integrity and efficient storage management. Prune without -exhaustive flag will only read existing snapshots and remove chunks that were part of removed snapshots but are no longer needed. Keep the -a argument intact. Without prune the datastore is add-only. Feb 23, 2022 · IMO, Duplicacy really needs to support multiple -id's in a single prune command so that a retention policy can run (with -collect-only) for a bunch of repositories and a final -delete-only takes care of the second step. # 删除指定存储内所有快照 duplicacy prune -a # 删除版本 2，`-r` 可以使用多次 duplicacy prune -r 2 # 删除一个范围 duplicacy prune -r 10-20 使用 -keep 选项可以指定保存策略，比如 Duplicacy provides a number of advanced settings that can be configured via user defaults on macOS and registry values on Windows. This is the full-featured web-based GUI frontend supporting all major operations (backup, restore, check, copy, and prune) as well as other features such as scheduling and email notifications. in my case i’m using OneDrive. Aug 11, 2021 · I’m struggling with getting my head around pruning. Oct 1, 2019 · Prune: Duplicacy(B2): 18 minutes Restic(Local): 4 hours and 12 minutes. I understand (i think) that the parralel tick box is only for other backups in the same schedule… is that correct? (i have them all unticked) My prune command is Aug 12, 2021 · If I select parallel for copy and check when will prune run? Understanding Parallel Option (WebUI) Support. Wagner Sartori Junior May 29 4:44AM 2018 CLI. Add the following two lines in the original script, before the “clean up lockfile” section: # Delete any backups older than 120 days. Feb 21, 2022 · Is there a way to stop a backup job running if a PRUNE is already running? I currently have 4 schedules… PRUNE - 8am every other day CHECK - 8am every other day (offset of above) LOCALBACKUP - 11pm Daily CLOUDBACKUP - 3am Daily. Here is a sample Nov 10, 2019 · By the way, Duplicacy will not automatically delete old backups. Which has worked great. They must be. Jul 5, 2022 · I have been using duplicacy for quite some time now. This was working fine until I enabled MFA on To delete the second snapshot I create a schedule in the Web GUI for prune with the options -r 2 -id Bernd. A prune operation will completely block all other clients connected to the storage from doing their regular backups. Although there is supposedly unlimited space available on Google Drive, I would still like to have automated Running the web-based GUI (Duplicacy Web Edition) to restore, check, copy, or prune existing backups You can use the personal GUI license to back up any files if you are a student, or a staff/faculty member at a school or university. google. I don’t know how I would be able to manually check if a missing chunk exists on the storage, as I do not know the path of a chunk. /snapshots has my repo folder but it’s empty. For several months (haven’t had time to address this issue until now :frowning_face:), Prune and Check have stopped working. So: duplicacy list Snapshot hps_pool2g revision 1 created at 2017-10-03 16:56 -hash Snapshot hps_pool2g revision 2 created at 2017-10-06 14:08. Installation is needed before you can start the executable. The exhaustive flag tells prune to look at all chunks, and remove orphans. Jul 24, 2020 · Hi all, Want to see if anyone else has had problems with Google (Team) Drives and the prune operation. Thanks for the info. Here’s the sanitized output of the error message. Dec 26, 2020 · duplicacy prune -keep 0:360 -keep 30:180 -keep 7:30 -keep 1:7. 87aa841a6fec03dd1ad6 12 August 2021 13:21 #1. I have only seen it with -keep 1:1. exe -d -log prune Jan 9, 2018 · Duplicacy by default will ignore repositories that have no new backup in the past 7 days. I find it unacceptable, and until it’s fixed I’m not using prune. exe prune -id laptop -keep 365:365 -keep 30:90 -keep 7:10 -keep 1:2 -threads 64 Please describe what you expect to happen (but doesn’t): Delete old snapshot according to the criteria. I have this command running every Wednesday: So i would May 12, 2020 · duplicacy prune -keep 0:360 -keep 30:180 -keep 7:30 -keep 1:7 Second question. I have written a script to handle our daily backup. Dec 7, 2020 · Strange issue on Windows using duplicacy-cli 2. In my google drive storage i have a folder named fossils which has 40+ GB of files w/o any . Explanation given is that prune deletes files in two steps: first renaming chunks to fossils, then actually removing only if there is a “new snapshot Apr 24, 2024 · The missing chunks are usually result of interrupted prune: it deleted chunks but failed to delete the snapshots that referred to those chunks. Is there anything that can be done to improve the speed of "check"? - #10 by Droolio) where I was talking about check being slow, I am now trying to follow the suggestion of running prune to make check faster. fsl extension. A new generation cross-platform cloud backup tool. Hoping someone can tell me how to set the prune options to achieve what I would like which is very simple. 2. If a chunk reported as missing in fact does not exist in the storage, then you may need to find out why it is missing. With just a few clicks, you can effortlessly set up backup, copy, check, and prune jobs that will reliably protect your data while making the most efficient use of your storage space. Apr 27, 2024 · Honestly, Duplicacy looks reay good, and I’ve tried it for the last couple of days. Jan 8, 2018 · Bluebeep Jan 10 11:40PM 2018 . web-ui. com with the user duplicacy is using and created and deleted a new folder there successfully, so google permissions seem OK. Feb 11, 2022 · Add prune job with the desired schedule and ignore retention settings configurable in the dialog. Hello, good morning I have 2 servers backing up to the same B2 storage (different ID). To do that, you must prune your backup set. I do daily backups and want the following settings: Keep daily backups for 12 months Keep weekly backups for 24 months Keep monthly backups for 48 months Delete everything older than 48 months Is this even possible? Could you tell me, what I need to input in the GUI Menu? 2nd questions: Is there any disadvantage This is the user guide for Duplicacy Web Edition. You can also recover fossilized chunks with check -fossils -resurrect but since those snapshots were going to be pruned anyway it would be extra work for nothing. Why I can’t figure out how to do this is beyond me. Separate but related: is there a simple way to determine the total number of chunks contained in a storage pool? Aug 13, 2024 · Hello, I am trying to grasp the way how duplicacy works. @saspus is providing a docker image for duplicacy (here: Bitbucket) so I take it that it makes sense to dockerize even duplicacy, but I’m not sure I fully Oct 19, 2024 · It seems it works as designed. I am shocked by the time difference on the prune process (Note that for restic, I run “forget” with “–prune”. So what do people do for this? Do you just pick something at random to restore and restore it somewhere and May 17, 2022 · I do not know why my simple mind cannot grasp the prune options but it cannot. On Linux, Duplicacy Web Edition is provided as executables and no installation is required. Adjust Aug 25, 2019 · The issue is, Duplicacy can’t do this because pruning is done on a snapshot level. That’s it, simple. Once you have the prune job added it’s arguments will be displayed in the column in the list. g. I have read the page on wiki and pdf with detailed explanation of how pruning works. This may happen with other -keep options. Data is not lost — but checks will start failing on the ghost snapshots that were supposed to be deleted. Feb 4, 2020 · I have a local and remote storage. duplciacy/logs Demo: % mkdir source target && cd source % dup… Aug 6, 2021 · I can only think of 2 possibilities that duplicacy prune -exhaustive would affect existing old snapshots: 1) prune doesn’t see the snapshot id (that is, for some reason the listFiles call doesn’t return the subdirectory corresponding to the snapshot id, or 2) the local cache stores different versions of the snapshot files. Loses all changes between oldest and youngest revisions. Sep 8, 2019 · Please describe what you are doing to trigger the bug: Running prune -keep 1:1 on snapshot with multiple revisions during the day keeps the oldest revision. Nov 4, 2023 · hi there, I have tried to play around with pruning but I’m afraid I can’t figure out, how it works. But prune seems even slower than check, and while check at least has a progress bar Oct 17, 2017 · Prune log files are kept under . Prune command seems to create a file under . My backup/prune commands look like this (encryption/password related stuff omitted for brevity): duplicacy-wrapper backup duplicacy-wrapper prune -a -keep 0:365 -keep 30:30 -keep 7:7 -keep 1:1 duplicacy-wrapper prune -a -exclusive duplicacy-wrapper copy -from default -to b2 duplicacy-wrapper prune -a -storage b2 -keep 0: Jun 22, 2018 · The local Prune (or the local Prune in combination with the cloud Prune) appears to be resulting in a LOT of chunks being touched. The main beef is Pruning. I run the backup tasks every day and my goal is to keep the backups of the last 5 or 7 days with no monthly or yearly saved backup (it´s just some private stuff). These settings are stored under com. I continually run duplicacy every 6 hours and want to keep everything for the last week (days 0-7), one per day for the Jan 24, 2018 · Christoph Jan 25 3:43PM 2018 . yqxnvukbcnwhbdstkpspxzgmvusnmxuxyzrrudxkgirjblsxdja