How to Install Duplicati on OpenBSD

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.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure that:

• You are logged in as the root user or a user with sudo privileges.
• Your OpenBSD system is up-to-date.

Step 1 - Install Mono

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

Step 2 - Download Duplicati

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.

Step 3 - Extract Duplicati

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.

Step 4 - Run Duplicati

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/.

Conclusion

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.