Duplicacy With Wasabi

How do I use Duplicacy with Wasabi?

Duplicacy has been validated for use with Wasabi. Duplicacy is a cross-platform tool for backing up files to cloud storage services offering lock-free deduplication, client-side encryption, and database-less approach through a Web-based GUI.

Prerequisites

• Active Wasabi Cloud Storage Account

• Wasabi Bucket - See Working With Buckets and Objects

• Access & Secret Key Pair - See our Access Keys Guide

• Duplicacy Web Edition (Windows, MacOS, Linux)

Configure Storage

Download the appropriate OS version of the Web Client installer and run the executable.

To access the web GUI input the following address 127.0.0.1:3875

You will be prompted to establish a new password.

Upon Logging in you will want to create your Wasabi storage.

Click on "Storage" in the left hand pane.

Next click on "S3"

Click on "Service Provider" and from the drop down menu select "Wasabi"

Input the following information:

• Endpoint - Specify the Wasabi Service URL

• Region - Specify the Wasabi Region

• Access ID - Input your Wasabi Access Key

• Access Key - Input your Wasabi Secret Key

• Bucket - Choose the bucket you created

• Directory - Input the folder or directory name you created in the bucket if any

You can validate your keys are correct by clicking on the directory icon on the right side of the fields for Bucket. It will populate a list of your buckets to choose from.

Note - that this example discusses the use of Wasabi's us-east-1 storage region. To use other Wasabi storage regions, please use the appropriate Wasabi service URL as described in this article.

Click on "Continue"

You will then be prompted to choose if you want to encrypt the storage or not. If not you can leave the password blank.

Provide a Storage name and then click "Add".

Once created you will now see it listed in Storage

Backup Job

Next configure a Backup job by clicking on "Backup" in the left hand pane.

Then click on the "+" symbol in the right hand side.

Select the Directory you want to backup and provide a backup ID. Click on "Save".

You will now see your backup job listed.

Click on the "Play" button to run the job now and protect the data.

Schedule

Next you will want to create a Check job and a Backup Job to run against the storage. 

Click on "Schedule" in the left hand pane.

Click on the "+" symbol in the bottom.

Give the schedule a name, specify when you want it to run and then click on "Save".

Click on the "+" symbol on the schedule and add a job type to it.

From the type drop down menu select "Check".

Click on "Save".

Once the job has successfully ran go back to "Storage" and you can now see the data listed.

Repeat these steps to create the Backup job to backup the data. 

If you log into your Wasabi console and go to your bucket you can also see the data listed now.