Introducing Machine Tagging in the Duplicati Console

Managing multiple backup installations can become difficult as your infrastructure grows. Identifying which machines belong to which environment, team, customer, or purpose often requires external documentation or naming conventions that don’t always scale. To make organization easier and more flexible, the Duplicati console now includes Machine Tagging: a simple but powerful way to categorize and filter machines using fully customizable labels.

What Machine Tagging Allows You to Do

Machine Tagging introduces three key capabilities:

1. Assign Multiple Tags to Each Machine

Every machine in the console can now have any number of user-defined tags. Tags are completely free-form, allowing you to shape the system around your workflow rather than forcing a predefined structure. Examples include:

• Production

• QA

• Laptop

• Customer-A

• Critical

• Test

Tags can also overlap and combine in any way you choose. A single machine might be tagged as both Production and Database, while another could be Laptop, Remote, and Low-Priority.

2. Choose Colors for Visual Clarity

Each tag is assigned a color, that you can change if needed. These colors appear directly in the machine list, allowing you to scan and understand your environment more quickly. Color-coding patterns are completely up to you:

• Blue for geographic regions

• Red for high-risk or high-priority systems

• Green for machines running smoothly

• Orange for test environments

Visual cues make it easy to grasp categories at a glance.

3. Filter the Machine View Using Tags

The machine view adds a new filtering panel that lets you include or exclude tags to narrow down the displayed machines. This is especially powerful for larger installations or MSP scenarios.

You can:

• Show only machines with a specific tag

• Combine multiple tags for refined filtering

• Hide machines with certain tags

• Quickly isolate systems that need attention

Filtering is instantaneous and works directly on the existing view, avoiding the need to jump between pages or search manually.

Why This Matters

Modern backup environments often span multiple networks, user groups, and deployment types. Machine Tagging makes the Duplicati console adapt to the way you think about your infrastructure:

• Better organization when managing hundreds of endpoints

• Clearer visibility into machine purpose and status

• Faster navigation in large and complex environments

• Flexible customization without rigid rules or naming constraints

Instead of relying on external notes or elaborate naming schemes, you can build your own tagging system and evolve it as your environment grows.

Getting Started

Using tags is straightforward:

1. Open the machine details page.

2. Add one or more tags.

3. Save your changes.

4. Use the filtering panel to control which tagged machines appear in the list.

Final Thoughts

Machine Tagging is a small feature that brings a big improvement to how you work with large sets of machines. Whether you manage a handful of laptops or a sprawling multi-tenant deployment, tags help you stay organized, focused, and efficient.

Try tagging your machines today and experience a more intuitive way to navigate your Duplicati environment.