# Duplicity - oops they did it again

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**Created:** [November 3, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/duplicity-oops-they-did-it-again/16051 "2025-11-03T22:56:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 6:40pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/duplicity-oops-they-did-it-again/16051/35 "2026-08-15T18:40:29Z")

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I have a backup device that pulls backups off my MIAB box so I did this to get at least one borg backup on the disk (untested)

My borg backup is twice as big as the old duplicity backup so I think the exclude isn’t actually working

```auto
# cd /home/user-data/backup
# mkdir borg
# cd borg
# export BORG_PASSCOMMAND="cat ../secret_key.txt"
# borg init --encryption keyfile .
# borg create --compression auto,zstd,22 --exclude 'backup/*' .::miab /home/user-data/

```

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