Duplicati is a free, open-source backup software that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on cloud storage services and remote file servers. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Duplicati on OpenBSD.
Before you begin, make sure that:
Duplicati requires Mono to run. Mono is a cross-platform, open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework. To install Mono, run the following command:
$ sudo pkg_add -v mono
To download Duplicati, you can use the curl command:
$ sudo curl -L "https://updates.duplicati.com/beta/duplicati-2.0.5.1_beta_2020-01-18.zip" -o duplicati.zip
This will download the latest version of Duplicati, which as of this tutorial is duplicati-2.0.5.1_beta_2020-01-18.zip.
Next, extract the contents of the downloaded zip file:
$ sudo unzip duplicati.zip -d /usr/local/
This will extract the content of the zip file to /usr/local/duplicati-2.0.5.1_beta_2020-01-18.
Now that Duplicati is installed, you can run it by executing the following command:
$ sudo /usr/local/duplicati-2.0.5.1_beta_2020-01-18/Duplicati.GUI.TrayIcon.exe
This will start Duplicati and make it available through your web browser at http://localhost:8200/.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Duplicati on OpenBSD. Duplicati is a powerful backup software that can be used to securely store encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on cloud storage services or remote file servers. By following the steps in this tutorial, you can now easily install and use Duplicati on your OpenBSD system.
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