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using deja dup to backup my ubuntu to a windows shared folder
I have a ubuntu 12.04 running and have certain things installed like samba,nagios and likewise-open to have my ubuntu join a windows domain. this all works correctly. I am not an expert in linux ...
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Can I share my external hard drive used for backup with other item?
I bought a pretty large external hard drive to backup my computer with and I have used Deja Dup a couple times.
I noticed I have a directory DDBackup on my external hard drive now. Can I use my ...
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Restoring a single file with deja-dup without scanning the entire backup archive
I'm trying to restore a single file with Deja-Dup but when I do this it starts scanning the ENTIRE frigging backup archive. Is there any way I can have it JUST restore the file I'm asking for without ...
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Deja Dup does not ask for password for FTP, CIFS, WebDAV or SSH
I'd like to backup my $HOME to my local NAS using CIFS ("Samba", "Windows"), WebDAV, SSH or FTP. I don't care which one (or should I care? My NAS (Synology DS212) supports all).
I've made somce ...
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How can I backup the whole system status (not documents)?
I want to backup my system status, like
Installed Packeges
What's on my sidebar
Grub Settings
Kernel...
in order to restore it in case of system crash.
I don't care about my document, music, ...
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Restore duplicity backup from nautilus
I wanted to create backup at a specific hour and day, and afterer reading this:
running deja-dup as cronjob, BU disc not connected
I decided to make backups using duplicity from shell.
I can create ...
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deja-dup fails to restore home directory
I backed up my home directory with deja-dup, installed Ubuntu 13.04, and attempted to restore the files, but after chosing the date of the backup to restore and chosing the location where to put the ...
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Deja-Dup says out of space though supposed to clear out older backups
Deja-Dup backup failed due to out of space condition on backup disk. It is indeed full, but I see many entries older than 1 month even though in the backup settings I indicate to keep backups for "at ...
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Deja Dup (Backup) Not Ignoring Folders
The built in backup application on a fresh installation of Ubuntu 13.04 works great. I have it set to encrypt my files and upload them via SSH to an offsite file server.
However, not wanting to ...
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Adjust timeout settings on ubuntu backup (dejadup)
I use deja-dup front-end (default backup application in Ubuntu since 12.04 or so?) to execute a remote backup. Recently, the backup seems to run fine, transferring files successfully to the remote ...
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Deja Dup restore error Help Please
I'm running Ubuntu 12.10
Intel i5
8Gb
1TB
Gigabyte MB
I have backed up all my data(Home folder only) to an external HDD. Today, after a fresh OS install with the same version of Ubuntu, I can't ...
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How can I run a script before Deja-dup back up starts?
I have set up a perforce server and now want to run deja-dup back up to back the server up.
The problem is that before the back up starts, I have to run a script to make a check point on perforce ...
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How to recover encrypted deja-dup backup from new install?
I have a backup of my documents stored in the Ubuntu One cloud. I used the default deja-dup backup application and I have enabled encyption.
I was running Ubuntu 13.04 daily build but as the school ...
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How can I see which set of backups Déjà-Dup has already saved?
I've been using Déjà-dup for a while with good moments and bad moments (backup failed to complete for some unknown reason, there is already a bug report for this).
So, I would like to check which ...
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Problems running Deja Dup with elevated priveleges
As advised by this answer, I'm using
gksu deja-dup-preferences
and
gksu "deja-dup --backup"
to backup my data, including files that have root-only permissions on them.
Both of the two ways lead ...
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Deja-Dup Backup Failed - Invalid data - SHA 1 hash mismatch for file
On my most recent weekly backup today, Deja-Dup gave me this little love note:
Backup Failed
Invalid data - SHA1 hash mismatch for file:
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What to select to back up from my system
I am using Déjà Dup and trying to back it up so i can try install a legacy driver and in case the install fails I can just restore.
Tried Nepomuk but I dont understand not one bit of how it works so ...
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Are there any known issues with Deja-Dup and Ubuntu One; notebly on restore?
Aloha,
I am planning a backup routine. I am thinking of using Deja-Dup and placing the backup in the default Ubuntu One folder. A while back I was making rsync backups and ran into problem when ...
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Can I restore backup made using Ubuntu to a new operating system?
I have backed up some contents of my home directory to a USB hard drive using Ubuntu's built-in backup program.
Is it possible to perform a clean installation of Ubuntu, then restore the contents of ...
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Can I delete incremental backups made with Déjà Dup?
After using Déjà Dup for a while, I keep getting this error after every attempt at a backup:
Backup location is too small. Try using one with more space.
Could I delete some backups made of ...
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How can I set Déjà Dup to keep backups for less than six months?
Déjà Dup allows me to choose whether to keep backups for six months, a year, or forever.
How do I choose to keep backups for less than six months, say, three months, or even more?
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How often does Déjà Dup backup using “automatic backups” setting?
I have turned on "automatic backups" using Déjà Dup:
How often will Déjà Dup make a backup now? Is it once a day? The help documentation doesn't say.
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If I use DejaDup to backup to alternating destinations, will its incremental features still work?
The use case is this: I have two USB hard drives. Suppose one lives off-site, and another I keep at my desk. It's likely that one disk will get daily backups, the other weekly or monthly.
If I ...
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How can I specify the hour at which my daily schedule of the DejaVu backup tool should run?
How can I specify the hour at which my daily schedule of the DejaVu backup tool should run?
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restoring backups with duplicity
I backed up my /Home folder to an external hard drive and now I'm trying to restore it on a fresh install. When I try to restore with Deja Dup, it takes about 15 seconds then says it was successful. ...
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Tried to use deja-dup for backup, but it give the following error(UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii')
Is there a way to find the filenames that is causing this error?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1404, in
with_tempdir(main)
File "/usr/bin/duplicity", ...
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Match Regular Expressions for Exclude List in deja-dup
It appears deja-dup does not accept regular expressions when adding entries via dconf-editor to org.gnome.DejaDup.exclude-list. Is there a solution to allow for regex matching of paths for this ...
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Backup no longer working
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10 backups no longer work (using the default Deja-Dup Backup tool). I always get the message: No space left in ‘/’. (which is NOT the path I backup to).
The preferences ...
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Déjà Dup over SSH - where to enter my login credentials?
I'm trying to make a backup of my folder in my ubuntu 12.10.
I'm using BackUp in system setting using ssh, it can go through preparation file to backup.
but then failed. cannot have permission to ...
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How do I restore Déjà Dup backups without Déjà Dup?
So I'm trying to restore my backup files with Déjà Dup, however, each time I enter in the correct password, it keeps asking for it over and over again.
This seems to be a bug, and I have found a ...
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Deja Dup Backup to Cd/Dvd Possible or Not?
I started to use Linux/Ubuntu 12.04 last week. I'm a new comer. I liked this O.S. But I have a question which I couldn't find the answer here and by google search.
The question is "Can I get scheduled ...
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Directory mirroring over network
I need a software or any other way to backup my home directory instantly so that if my data is lost I have another copy over the network.
I have a NAS on my local network and I want to have an exact ...
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Truly Quiet Deja Dup
I have set-up Deja Dup to take backup over a ssh connection on the LAN. At times when the link is down, Deja Dup pops out a box 'No route to host'.
Is there a way to avoid this? Like a -quiet ...
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Deja Dup backup, change use of /tmp to another folder/location
As the title suggests, I'd like to force Deja Dup to use a folder other than /tmp.
My backups fail due to size size restrictions, see bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1033552
Any help ...
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Where does deja-dup log its errors?
I configured Deja-dup to make a daily backup of my whole data drive. Now I get an error message each time, telling me, that not all files could be backuped. But i cannot find any Deja-dup logs in ...
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Backing up bind mounted folders
My layout is as follows.
LVM Setup: /dev/VG/Documents, /dev/VG/Music, /dev/VG/Pictures, /dev/VG/Music, /dev/VG/Documents, etc....
Each of the LVMs is bind mounted to the corresponding folder name in ...
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How to restore downloads folder from de ja dup backup
I backed up my entire home folder including Downloads.
After purchasing a new laptop, I found there is no "revert to previous version" when right clicking on downloads. There are files in Downloads ...
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How do I restore a specific folder from an encrypted backup?
I was wondering how to restore from an encrypted backup but only restore the Videos directory in the backup? The backup is stored on Ubuntu One and I'm using 12.04.
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Can app developers indicate folders to be excluded from Déjà Dup?
OS X‘s Time Machine backup system has an API that let application developers indicate that certain folders belonging to the application should be excluded from the user‘s backup. This is done through ...
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How does deja-dup react to whole folders being moved?
Does deja-dup have some mechanism to detect when I've moved a complete folder into a new subfolder?
Or will it copy all the files in the folder again?
I'm talking about folders that contain some 100 ...
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Deja Dup Restore Problem [closed]
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04, and make regular backups with Deja Dup. My backup files are on an external drive shared with Samba.
Some days ago, I needed restore a lost file. When I right-click and select ...
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Moving Deja Dup Backups From Dropbox to Ubuntu One
Is there a way where I can instead transfer/upload all my previous Deja dup backups from my Dropbox to my Ubuntu One and then from there, Deja dup will just continue synching with it whenever it ...
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Will deja dup or any other backup program work with Charter Cloud Drive?
Charter Communications offers their own cloud drive backup service for their customers. Since it is unlimited disk space, I am considering using it.
Does deja dup or any other backup solution ...
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Where does Deja-dup keep its config files?
Deja-dup (now Ubuntu Backup) is just a GUI for duplicity, therefore it should store the config files somewhere. I would like to changed the backup volume size to something like 300MB and the increase ...
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How can I get Deja-Dup to use my “Skydrive” account instead of Ubuntu One?
My Question,
How can I set Deja-Dup to use my "SkyDrive" as the backup...source since I have sooooo much more storage??
Any ideas or successful attempts???
Thanks for the help!
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Why is Deja-Dup slow to backup to Ubuntu One location? [closed]
I am using Deja-Dup to backup my home directory to Ubuntu One. Doing a full backup seems to take at least a day.
My broadband upload speed is measuring about 3Mb/s at the moment, but when I use ...
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Deja-dup: Invalid data - SHA1 hash mismatch for file
I have backed up my data with deja-dup utility and made clean install of 12.04.
But when I tried to restore the back up I got this error:
invalid data - SHA1 hash mismatch for file:
...
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failing to boot after ''succesfully'' restoring from deja dup backup
Before upgrading to 12.04, I completely backed up 11.10 oneiric with deja-dup. In 12.04 I had major nvidia-related problems, so I decided to roll back to 11.10.
I tried to restore from the backup and ...
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How do I open Deja Dup as root?
I wanted to backup /var/cache/apt/archives using 'Deja Dup' but it keeps saying >>
Could not backup the following files. Please make sure you are able to open them.
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