I assumed we could both run Duplicati, connect over Tailscale and bing bong boom, send files back and forth. But Dupicati only allows uploads and only to its cloud service, not to other Dupicati instances.
Requirements: Needs to be docker, preferably something with a Web GUI. My friend is not tech savvy and I am not physically close enough to help troubleshoot.
PS- I am not committed to Dupicati it just is the most recommended. I’m open to anything simple and encrypted!
Will a samba share work over Tailscale?
You don’t actually need Duplicati on her end at all, Duplicati can back up to a plain SFTP or WebDAV target, or S3, so her side just needs to recieve files. The simplest setup I’ve seen for a non-technical friend is SFTPGo in Docker over Tailscale, it has a web UI for managing a user and a folder, and nothing is exposed to the internet.
Keep the encryption on your side, Duplicati encrypts before upload, so she only ever sees encrypted blobs, and store the passphrase somewhere seperate from the backup itself. Set a quota if you can, agree on how much disk she is giving you, and test a restore to a spare folder once, a backup you haven’t restored is just a hope. FYI scheduled backups plus a monthly restore test is what actually saves you when a disk dies.
Thanks, the plan is to give her a hard drive and USB enclosure. I’ll check out SFTPGo, are there any docker apps that serve as an easy S3 bucket?
EDIT: SFTPGo looks great I just tested it out and it’s very simple, thanks for the recommendation!
I can’t recommend duplicati, I had issues with restoring from it, I now use restic
If you want something a bit more reliable than Duplicati with a similar list of supported platforms, look into Kopia, its GUI (KopiaUI) is a lot more convenient if you’re not used to the command line. I find restore ops to be faster than Duplicati, and unlike Duplicati I’ve never experienced database corruption. For opening a webDAV instance that you can use as a data bucket for your files remotely, I’ve been very impressed with Copyparty.
I looked into that but unless I’m mistaken, KopiaUI is not a docker app
Kopia(UI) is a client you run on your system, yes. It’s not containerized or web-managed, though I think there might be a web UI you could host for managing the CLI version. The Docker container on your pal’s setup would just be presenting you with a network folder that you point the backup system at.
Also I know I could do SyncThing easily over tailscale but I’m looking more for a backup options with scheduled backups.
Yeah, sync is not a backup.
