Déjà Dup is a front end for Duplicity, and is Ubuntu's default backup utility since 11.10.
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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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Deja Dup dissapears when schedule
I run Ubuntu 12.04 and I have Deja Dup scheduled daily, but each time the schedule starts and I see the icon on the taskbar and I click the icon, the deja dup disappears. It is running because I see ...
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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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Restore from deja-dup backup in low-graphic mode? [duplicate]
Kernel update from 3.2.0-40 to 3.2.0-41 resulted in low-graphic mode. My search of solutions for low-graphic mode leaded me to the page recommending to cleanup root partition by erasing unused ...
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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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Why is deja backup / duplicity so fast?
I compared Deja backup/duplicity to Time Machine on similar hardware and Deja/duplicity is at least an order of magnitude faster. On same hardware an 100 MB incremental backup on Time Machine required ...
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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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How to back up to a FreeNAS box?
I have a FreeNAS box running 8.3, with a password protected SMB share. How would I set up deja dup to work with that share? I can switch to an AFP or NFS share, if need be.
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How to setup deja-up (backup) with “copy” cloud service?
I have ubuntu 13.04 beta2 and am wondering how to setup deja-dup to synch directly the selected folders with the "copy" cloud service (and others).
Any idea?
I guess you have to use the custom ...
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how do I remove the .ecryptfs folder that was created after deja-dup backup?
I have a very large .ecryptfs folder in my /home directory that is the size of my /username directory. I believe it was created after I ran a backup using gksu deja-dup-preferences.
Previous ...
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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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Deja Dup won't do a full backup on new external hard drive
I have replaced my external hard drive and now need to do a full backup of my home directory onto the new drive.
I've change the location in Deja Dup and it creates the new directory fine, but the ...
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Deja Dup resolves host name incorrectly, adds ISP hostname
PROBLEM:
I backup to an SSH server via Deja Dup. Recently I am recieving warnings that: my backups are for a computer called my_actual_hostname but the current computer is my_hostname.hawaii.rr.com.
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Error Déjà. Not enough free space [duplicate]
I use Déjà for backup. Backups are stored on disk USB. I disconnect and connect USB drive. Now when the backup program is trying to create a backup, I get the error:
Not enough space on the disk.
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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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running deja-dup as cronjob, BU disc not connected
I have a problem with my backup cronjob. I use these settings (as proposed in that post):
15 * * * * env DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/deja-dup --backup
During runtime deja-dup says:
Backup location not ...
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deja-vu backup, test restored random volume ok, being home it was encrypted
As root backed up using deja-dup to a stick and it was successful.
Decided to test restoring one of the pgp volumes and it too was reported as successful.
When I checked the test destination directory ...
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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 my Ubuntu Deja Dup to a Lubuntu install?
Are Ubuntu and Lubuntu similar enough to use a Deja Dup of my home directory from Ubuntu 12.04 to restore it to a different distro of Ubuntu - specifically Lubuntu 12.04? As I understand it there are ...
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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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How can I install Deja Dup series 24 in Precise 12.04?
The integrity check in series 24 and above is important to me.
I asked the question on Launchpad as well: https://answers.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+question/219779
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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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At restoring unencrypted data Déja Dup wants password [closed]
When I try to restore data that I did not encrypt, I need to enter an encryption password.
Recently I upgraded from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.10. In the older version I made a backup without encryption of ...
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duplicity fails with timeout
After one hour of backup with deja-dup, it failed with this exception.
Is this a network problem on my side ?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1403, in ...
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Deja-dup icon doesn't show in GNOME top panel
I run Ubuntu 12.04 with classic GNOME desktop. I also have set up Deja-Dup to weekly backup a folder I specified.
Now the question is: when the backup runs I don't see a notification icon in the top ...
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Cannot access deja-dup backup
My laptop is being repaired and I need to access the files on my encrypted HDD (which I regularly back up with Deja-Dup).
Is there a way of accessing these backed-up files through WIndows or mac?
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How can I use an existing S3 bucket in Backup?
I have an existing Amazon S3 bucket in the Oregon region. How can I use it as the backup location in Backup?
Details
I've enabled the Amazon S3 backup location, but I don't see a way to specify ...
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Can I use Amazon Glacier as the backup location?
Amazon Glacier storage is attractively inexpensive. Is there a way to make Backup use it as the backup location?
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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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Lubuntu and backup software?
I use unity and I appreciate the backup facilities incorporate since 12.04 (deja dup).
Is it possible to use it with Lubuntu ? One of the advantages of the integration of deja dup in unity is the ...
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deja-dup backup encrypted home
Some days ago i have encrypted my home thanks to ecryptfs-utils.
Now i have a big doubt regarding deja-dup and the future backup:
can i backup the files that are in my home folder?
will they be ...
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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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Backup programs and user data from an old hdd to a new installation on ssd
I have a Ubuntu system on my old hdd, which is connected via usb to this system, and a sdd is built into my notebook. At the moment I am running an Ubuntu system from a usb stick.
I have tried to ...
