Duplicati: Support for a CIFS / SMB backend

[kenkendk]

The current support for SMB relies on the OS to map the SMB / CIFS folder into the local filesystem.

This usually works, but is complicated in Windows where a service cannot see mounted folders for the user account. From a security perspective it might also be nice to access the remote destination without needing to make it accessible from the local filesystem.

Want to back this issue? Post a bounty on it! We accept bounties via Bountysource.

[kenkendk]

Looks like there finally is a library for this:
https://github.com/zinkpad/SharpCifs

[HRomie]

Does this mean that right now backing up to a SMB share while running duplicati as a windows service is not supported?

[kenkendk]

You can do the backup, but you will use the Windows CIFS implementation to mount the drive in the user context.

[StrangeWill]

@kenkendk which can be a bit rough.

Relying on SMB would definitely bring down complexity on some of my installs.

[JonMikelV]

So this is basically adding a CIFS client to Duplicati as mentioned here, right?
https://forum.duplicati.com/t/smb-destination/2900/5