The next step in the Quick Start guide is “…change to the directory that you want to back up” (which they confusingly call the “repository”). If not, enter this command to find what your “path” environment variable is set to, and copy the duplicacy.exe file to one of those locations. You should see a version number and a list of options. If you now type this simple command duplicacy Ren duplicacy_win_圆4_2.3.0.exe duplicacy.exe
For convenience, we’ll rename it to “duplicacy.exe” as well.
You can use the following Powershell commands (or File Manager) to copy the Duplicacy executable we just downloaded to C:\Windows\system32.
DUPLICACY ADMINISTRATION PASSWORD INSTALL
On Windows right-click on the Windows start button and open a Windows Powershell (Admin). You will need administrator privileges to install the program and also to run it later in the background, so make sure you do all of the following as an admin user. The first sentence of the Quick Start quide says “Once you have the Duplicacy executable on your path…”, so we’ll start with that.
DUPLICACY ADMINISTRATION PASSWORD FOR WINDOWS 10
For Windows 10 64-bit at the time of writing this is duplicacy_win_圆4_2.3.0.exe. Initial set upįirst, download the latest version of the command line executable appropriate to your operating system. This post is specifically about Windows backups – for backups from Linux see our later post. The catch is it’s a bit tricky to set up and the documentation is sparse, so that’s what this post is about. This is where Duplicacy comes in – it’s fast, efficient and secure, available for Windows, OSX and Linux and the command line version is free for personal use. They also struggle to back up large files that are constantly in use, like mail archives and log files. Unfortunately, standard backup software like Microsoft File History and Apple Time Machine can’t use this sort of cloud storage. To set them up you’ll obviously need somewhere to store them, and the good news is if you have a Microsoft 365 subscription you already have 1 TB (a thousand gigabytes) of free OneDrive storage (and other cloud providers can also be used).īy the way – did you know that if you have all your files synchronised to OneDrive, you can restore older versions for 28 days by going to and selecting the settings (gear wheel symbol) at the top right, then Options > Restore your OneDrive > Select a date? The best backups are automated (hence frequent), versioned (so you can recover deleted or hacked files) and off-site (no worries about fire or theft).
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