Duplicati

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2018–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Duplicati, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 6 complaints

Installing it natively on Linux is very difficult2025-07-20
Backup gets jammed after interruption and must be force killed, risking data corruption2023-09-16
Restic alternative is much harder and time consuming to set up2022-11-03
UI is incredibly slow to interact with2022-11-03
Restoring requires recreating the repository with original parameters first, which is counter-intuitive and hard to remember2022-11-03
Web interface feels buggy, making the user distrust it for backups2018-04-21