Duplicity Backup on OpenBSD 5.8

Published on 12/14/2015

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The duplicity 0.6.26 package seems to be broken for OpenBSD 5.8 (i386). Here’s how to make it work.

Get the ports tree and unpack it:

pkg_add wget
cd /tmp
wget http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/ports.tar.gz
cd /usr
tar -zxvf /tmp/ports.tar.gz

(this takes a few minutes)

Compile duplicity:

cd /usr/ports/sysutils/duplicity
make install

(go get some coffee)

Install gpg and generate a key:

pkg_add gnupg
gpg --gen-key

(accept the defaults)

Full backup:

duplicity full $sourceDir file:///$targetDir

Incremental backup:

duplicity incremental $sourceDir file:///$targetDir

Restore:

duplicity restore file:///$sourceDir $targetDir

If you’re using S3:

• use s3+http://$bucketName as the target
• Your bucket should be in US Standard Region
• export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=$yourAWSAccessKeyId
• export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=$yourAWSSecretKey

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