BackendTool

This page describes the backend tool in Duplicati

The BackendTool is intended to provide commandline access to the remote destination. This can be used to create remote folders, locate remote files, and fetch remote files.

The BackendTool is called Duplicati.CommandLine.BackendTool.exe on Windows and duplicati-backend-tool on Linux and MacOS.

The basic usage for the tool is:

duplicati-backend-tool <command> <remote url> [filename]

There are 5 supported commands: GET, PUT, DELETE, LIST, CREATEFOLDER.

The GET, PUT, and DELETE commands will download, upload, and delete a file, respectively. The filename parameter refers to the remote filename and will be matched to a local filename. It is not possible to have different filenames on the remote and local system with this operation. Note that any change to the remote storage will likely required a recreate of the local database.

The LIST command will simply list all files found on the remote location and has no side-effects. The CREATEFOLDER command can be used to created folders in preparation for making a backup or moving files.