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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Backup Thread -- RAID is not backup!
 
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Fragrag
Aug 3, 2007
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I just switched to a Duplicati+BackblazeS2 setup last weekend. It's all pretty straightforward, I had it set up and running in less than an hour.

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Fragrag
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What's the best way to move a Duplicati backup job from a Windows computer to a Synology NAS? Up to now I've been doing my backups from my desktop to Backblaze S2 using Duplicati. Now I just bought a NAS and after putting all of my data there I'd like it to do the backups without starting from scratch or losing what has already been uploaded.

I feel like there's an obvious solution to this but I can't seem to find it.

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Pantsmaster Bill posted:

This seems like a reasonable assumption but can someone confirm?

If I have Duplicati running on, say, a Raspberry Pi and backing up to B2, if I eventually switch to something like a Synology, running Duplicati, and continue to back up without having to do a full initial backup again? I'm assuming if the source files are the same and the destination is the same, it doesn't matter what platform the backup software is running on.

If you start from a Linux system and transition to a different Linux system, then it should work. Even if you lose your configuration files while transitioning, Duplicati should be able to compare the already backed up files to the source and rebuild its configuration from there if the structure is the same.

However, transitioning from a Windows environment to a Linux environment will more than likely not work as I experienced myself. There was some discussion about it on the Duplicati forums here.

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