YOU’LL NEED THIS
DUPLICATI
Suitable online storage. Duplicati supports most popular services as well as WebDAV, FTP, and SSH, and can store backups locally too.
THE FIRST RULE OF BACKUPS is that you can’t have too many backups. Better to have redundant copies of your data than a single copy that fails when you need it. Hopefully, you’ve already accumulated two separate backup devices, say a USB drive and network-attached storage, with backups alternating between them. You now need a third backup, stored offsite in case of fire, damage, or theft. The obvious choice is the online storage offered by Microsoft, Dropbox, or Google. But does your backup tool support cloud-based backups, and can you even trust your cloud provider—who controls the encryption keys that could unlock your data without consent?
Remove this worry by wrapping your backups in another layer of encryption, one whose keys remain in your possession, out of reach of others. The tool for the job is Duplicati—it’s optimized for cloud backups, straightforward to use, and completely free.
1 DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL
Duplicati supports all major platforms—you’ll find links for Windows, macOS, Linux (.deb and. rpm packages), and Synology NAS. Synology users can install the package directly, but other platforms require additional packages—Mono in the case of macOS and Linux, and both. NET Framework 4.6.2 and Visual C++ run-time components for Windows.
Windows users can open Settings > System > Windows Update and view the Update history to verify if the. NET Framework is in place (look for updates related to. NET Framework 4.8.1), then navigate to Apps > Installed Apps and search for ‘Visual C++’ to) for installation instructions for all platforms.
