Duplicacy Backup Monitor for Home Assistant

April 13, 2026 · View on GitHub

Duplicacy Backup Monitor for Home Assistant

A Home Assistant custom integration that monitors Duplicacy backups through the duplicacy-exporter Prometheus exporter.

Get real-time backup status, progress, speed, and historical metrics directly in your Home Assistant dashboard.

Prerequisites

A running instance of duplicacy-exporter that exposes /metrics (Prometheus format) and /health endpoints.

Installation

HACS (Recommended)

Open HACS in Home Assistant.
Go to Integrations and click the three-dot menu.
Select Custom repositories.
Add https://github.com/GeiserX/duplicacy-ha with category Integration.
Search for "Duplicacy Backup Monitor" and install it.
Restart Home Assistant.

Manual

Copy the custom_components/duplicacy directory into your Home Assistant config/custom_components/ directory.
Restart Home Assistant.

Configuration

Go to Settings > Devices & Services > Add Integration.
Search for Duplicacy Backup Monitor.
Enter the URL of your duplicacy-exporter (default: http://localhost:9750).
The integration will verify the connection and create all entities.

A separate HA device is created for each unique backup job (identified by snapshot ID and storage target). Each device contains all applicable sensors and binary sensors.

Entities

Sensors

Entity	Description	Unit	Device Class
Last successful backup	Timestamp of the most recent successful backup	-	Timestamp
Last backup duration	How long the last backup took	seconds	Duration
Backup speed	Current upload speed during a running backup	B/s	Data Rate
Backup progress	Current backup completion percentage	%	-
Bytes uploaded (last)	Bytes uploaded in the last backup	bytes	Data Size
New bytes (last)	New bytes detected in the last backup	bytes	Data Size
Total files (last)	Number of files processed in the last backup	-	-
New files (last)	Number of new files in the last backup	-	-
Last exit code	Exit code of the last backup (0 = success, 1 = failure)	-	-
Last revision	Revision number of the last backup	-	-
Chunks uploaded	Chunks currently being uploaded	-	-
Chunks skipped	Chunks skipped (already present)	-	-
New chunks (last)	New chunks created in the last backup	-	-
Total bytes uploaded	Cumulative bytes uploaded (monotonically increasing)	bytes	Data Size
Last successful prune	Timestamp of the most recent successful prune operation	-	Timestamp

Binary Sensors

Entity	Description	Device Class
Backup running	Whether a backup is currently in progress	Running
Prune running	Whether a prune operation is currently in progress	Running

Example Automations

Alert on Backup Failure

automation:
  - alias: "Duplicacy backup failed"
    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: sensor.documents_b2_last_exit_code
        to: "1"
    action:
      - service: notify.mobile_app
        data:
          title: "Backup Failed"
          message: "Duplicacy backup for 'documents' to B2 has failed."

Alert if No Backup in 24 Hours

automation:
  - alias: "Duplicacy no backup in 24h"
    trigger:
      - platform: template
        value_template: >
          {{ as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(states('sensor.documents_b2_last_successful_backup')) > 86400 }}
    action:
      - service: notify.mobile_app
        data:
          title: "Backup Overdue"
          message: "No successful Duplicacy backup for 'documents' to B2 in the last 24 hours."

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Project	Description
duplicacy-cli-cron	Docker-based encrypted dual-storage backup automation using Duplicacy CLI
duplicacy-exporter	Real-time Prometheus exporter for Duplicacy backups
duplicacy-mcp	MCP Server for Duplicacy backup monitoring via Prometheus exporter
duplicacy-container	Container image and Helm chart for running Duplicacy on Kubernetes

License

GPL-3.0