After trying several things such as rebuilding the database, I gave up on it and it shook my confidence of being able to reliably retrieve my data from the cloud (technically, Duplicati v2.0 is considered beta so perhaps it is not production ready). I tried repairing and correcting the issue.

The data and database became out of sync. Then I ended up encountering an issue with a file that may have been corrupt or some other issue. I like using Ubuntu since I am most comfortable with it since I have been using it since 2005 shortly after it was initially released.ĭuplicati was the first backup software that I thought would meet my needs for using Backblaze B2. Of course, there are other Linux options if you want an ultra light weight OS. In either case, I would only need to run something like Ubuntu Server which does not have a desktop environment installed by default. I was looking for either a command line tool or a tool that exposed a web interface to configure the backups. I did not want to create a virtual machine with a full blown operating system just so that I can run the CrashPlan application. I wanted to know if I could keep the offsite backup costs a little lower than $10 per month (even though that is not a huge expense to ensure your most important files are protected) and also run a lighter weight service.

I was using CrashPlan, and my discounted subscription expired. After I migrated my home server to use Proxmox, I began searching for a new offsite, cloud backup solution.

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