Questions tagged [deja-dup]
Déjà Dup is a front end for Duplicity, and is Ubuntu's default backup utility since 11.10.
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Can I restore files backed up by Deja Dup on a Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04?
I currently have Ubuntu 16.04 installed. I intend to erase disk and perform a clean install of Ubuntu 20.04 from a bootable USB flash drive. If I were to backup my files using Deja Dup in 16.04, would ...
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Does deja dup restore all my Ubuntu from only Google Drive after a complete wipe?
I set up my Backup software (deja dup) on Ubuntu 20.04 after a clean customizing. And my storage is Google Drive.
So I have checked and there is the folder now on Google Drive.
Someday for some reason ...
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DejaDup "Restore Failed, no backups to restore"
after recently having issues with my Ubuntu installation, I live booted Ubuntu, mounted the problematic partition, and made a complete backup of it using Deja Dup. However, upon wiping that partition ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 default backup program not backing up .dbus file [duplicate]
Deja-dup dose not backup .dbus Ubuntu 20.04.
If I use timeshift -/home/username and Deja-dup can I restore with fresh install off Ubuntu 20.04, restore with timeshift with snapshot on USB stick, and ...
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Backup before shutdown?
Deja Dup runs in the morning & hogs my CPU.
Is there a way to add a new button to the Ubuntu "power off" menu that will "backup then shut down" in addition to the 'shut down' ...
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Backup failure using Deja Dup with google drive - Invalid Credentials
My Ubuntu version is 18.04. The error is as follows which only appears in the middle of uploading backup files:
Giving up after 5 attempts. Error: gdata-service-error-quark: Authentication required: {
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Migrate ubuntu install to another drive on the same computer
I want to migrate all my current data, that includes files, desktop, home folder, programs and even open tabs in browser and history to another volume at the same computer without having boot/grub ...
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Does Déjà Dup remove deleted files when it makes an incremental backup?
Say a file is deleted after a full backup but before the next incremental backup. When incrementing the backup, will Déjà Dup remove the deleted file from the backup? Is there any way to recover the ...
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[Déjà Dup]: Backup Failed
I'm trying to use Déjà Dup Backup Tool going with the Ubuntu 20.04LTS to backup my computer. But when I click "Backup Now" or let the software work as scheduled, an error notification ...
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Improve full backup speed with Déjà Dup / Duplicity
Is there an ease fix two to improve the backup speed using the default Déjà Dup Backup solution of the Ubuntu Gnome Desktop?
Actually I'm quite happy with my weekly duplicity backups, but I set it up ...
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What do I backup prior to upgrading 16.04 to 18.04? [duplicate]
I have deja-dup, and it is currently set by default to backup only my HOME directory.
I'm about to upgrade my OS from 16.04 to 18.04 and am advised to 'take a backup'.
I'm dubious that just backing up ...
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Builtin backup tool in LTS
I have been using the builtin backup tool for several months creating a automatic file every week. Today I had a chance to use it to restore my files, stored in a USB stick just for backup that I can ...
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Déjà Dup does not allow to change google drive account from which restore the files
I had to reinstall Ubuntu and then I wanted to restore the backup I saved in Google Drive (using Deja-dup). It didn't ask me which account, it just said that there weren't any backups to restore. ...
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DejaVu Backup not working for google drive
I've recently tried switching the google drive i upload my backups to, but now the backup utility (deja-dup) just isn't working. When I try to make a backup, it would scan, and then time out with
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Remove configuration files of Déjà Dup, purge not working
I want to completely reset deja-dup configuration files.
I tried removing and installing again using snap, but previous settings are still there after a fresh install (e.g. backup path, folders to ...
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Backing up drives - alternating drives with Backup
I know how you can use Backup (the gui for duplicity) to back up to an external hard drive. But what if you want to back up to multiple drives?
The situation might be you want to back up to drive A, ...
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“Backup Failed”: Could not restore ‘~/.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup
This problem has been reported before and claimed to be fixed. I am getting the same error when backing up which causes my next automatic backup to not start.
Observations
During backup there is a ~/....
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deja-dup wrong behaviour with google drive
I had a google account connected to Ubuntu20.04. I tried to make a backup to google drive and as intended, the backup started normally. I didn't have enough free space in this account so I decided to ...
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Is there a backup software for external hard drive working on both Ubuntu and Windows?
I couldn't find an appropriate thread discussing all the things at once so I'm going to ask here.
I need something to backup 500GB worth of files to an external 2TB hard drive.
I prefer some backup ...
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Why Déjà Dup is failing with gpg: decryption failed: Bad session key in Ubuntu 20.04.1?
When backup start, I have the error
===== Begin GnuPG log =====
gpg: AES256 encrypted data
gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase
gpg: decryption failed: Bad session key
===== End GnuPG log =====
Though it ...
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Backups (Deja Dup) is missing Nextcloud option in 20.04 LTS
My Déjà Dup is missing an option to back up to Nextcloud. This is on 20.04 LTS. I see only three: Google Drive, Network Server, and Local Folder. Is there some way I can add it back?
I do see the ...
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How can I remove a file from old duplicity backups?
I do one full duplicity backup (through Déjà-Dup) of my /home (except a couple of directories) about once a week. Now I found that I saved some very big files that I don't really need to include in my ...
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deja dup, duplicity and google
I ran deja-dup to backup a directory to Google. It only worked partially, because authorization was lost before the job completed (in repeated attempts). I couldn't find a solution to that, so now I ...
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Backup Failed: Could not understand duplicity version + Cannot ask duplicity for its version
I get the following error when trying to run backup on my laptop running Ubuntu 18.04:
I also get the following error when trying to ask duplicity for its version:
xyz@thinkpad:~$ deja-dup --version
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Déjà Dup “Revert to Previous Version” is missing from Nautilus's file context menu
I used to browse to a file in Nautilus, right click it and select
“Revert to Previous Version” (or something close) to replace it with a backed-up copy. The Nautilus context menu option is missing now....
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deja-dup is still failing
I'm having the same issue and I'm not able to find any solution just like:
deja-dup-backup-tool-error
backup-failed-deja-dup
deja-dup-backup-fails
Installed versions:
Duplicity 0.7.17
Python 2.7....
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Deja dup not working in 20.04
I'm trying to create a backup using deja dup backup tool. When I click Bakcup now... I'm getting the message:
In order to continue the following packages need to be installed:
python3-pydrive
I'...
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Deja Dup always creates First backup
I'm running MATE Ubuntu 16.04 on an ASUS x-550LA trying to back up to an external HDD via USB.
Every time I run Deja Dup it Reports "Creating first copy".
This is what I find if I open the external ...
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Create persistent usb with Déjà Dup
I broke my ubuntu install on a usb, but luckily, I backed up my ubuntu install to google drive. Since my server is a headless server, I would like to figure out how to restore my ubuntu install ...
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Deja-dup has an error backing up after updating to Ubuntu 20.04
I updated to 20.04 a couple days ago and now deja-dup won't backup. I'm backing up to a network server and the error is
BackendException: Could not initialize backend: /snap/core18/current/lib/...
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Deja Dup Device Name Issue
My Linux desktop is 4 years old. I originally named it "foo", but 2ish years ago renamed it "bar". I turned on backups for the first time today using Deja Dup, and it used the old computer/hostname ...
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How to build Deja Dup for Ubuntu
This is both my first question here and my first try to build a custom app for Ubuntu, so I hope I'm not messing it up :)
I want to modify Deja Dup app to make AWS S3 work with IBM COS S3. It should ...
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Unable to restore a Deja-dup backup
My laptop has just been repaired and I have a fresh, clean install of Ubuntu 18.04.
I would like to restore the data in my home directory, using the backups I made on an external hard drive, using the ...
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Déjà Dup Backup failed to execute child process “duplicity” (No such file or directory) Ubuntu Mate 18.04.4 LTS
Since today I get the Déjà Dup error mentioned in the title. I'm aware that there are a lot of questions about this error. Sadly, the answers given there won't work for me because:
sudo apt-get ...
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Deja Dup Permission Denied after creating initial directory
I am running deja-dup v40.6 (installed with snap) on Ubuntu 18.04, using Google as the storage backend. When I run a backup, a directory gets successfully created in my Google Drive with the correct ...
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Change Backups (Déjà Dup) encryption password
Issue:
Déjà Dup doesn't work recognize my password.
I think I just have forgotten it but I don't know how to change the password.
What I would like to do:
I would like to change the encryption ...
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Backups to google drive failing with RedirectMissingLocation error
Trying to set up an initial backup in Ubuntu 18.04 on google drive with a deja-dup installed as follows due to a known authentication error:
snap install deja-dup --classic --beta
The backup fails ...
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Duplicity & Google Drive error
In order to back up my data, from my Ubuntu 18.04.3 system, I use Duplicity (0.7.17-0ubuntu1.1) and have the back-up stored in Google Drive.
After running, duplicity gives this report:
Giving up ...
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Backup Failed - Deja Dup
Last few days I've been trying to make a new backup on Deja Dup but I get the error:
Backup Failed
Failed with an unknown error.
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1555, ...
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Ubuntu 19.10 - Backup doesn't work after upgrade
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 19.10 from 19.04 and the backup has stopped working.
It now shows, Backup Failed, Could not log into Google servers. OK
There was no such problem before the upgrade.
I ...
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Deja-dup losing its mind every few days on 19.10
I was using deja-dup on 16.04 with no problems. I recently upgraded to 19.10, and now I'm having problems with it losing its mind every few days.
I set it up initially and it worked fine for a week ...
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Backup stops because of claim 'Computer name changed', which is it not true
Using Ubuntu 16.04, deja-dup 34.2, and duplicity 0.7.06.
To start a weekly backup I connected the usual external drive with the usual computer, gave the password and received the halt message:
The ...
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Deja Dup restore lost last modified dates of files
After a new system install, I used Deja Dup to restore my files from a previous backup.
I recovered my files, however I lost in the process all the dates of the files and folders. All of them have ...
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Deja Dup: Change Day of Weekly Backup
Is it possible to change the day that weekly backups occur with Deja Dup (Ubuntu "Backups")? It is currently set to backup every Thursday, which doesn't always work with my schedule.
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Duplicity not supported in 19.10?
While upgrading to 19.10 with the software updater it said 7 packages amongst them duplicity would be removed, the reason being that canonical does not support these packages any more.
I have backed ...
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backups & deja dup not working
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 and used apt Backups to put it on my external-drive. This was another incremental backup. Reinstalled from the same Ubuntu 16.04 64bit ISO dvd. I launched backups, and got ...
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"Backups" (deja-dup): after installing duplicity 0.8 from source, "Backups" can't find it
When using "Backups" (a.k.a. deja-dup) - it doesn't find duplicity, although it's installed:
I have been trying to backup using "Backups" (a.k.a. deja-dup), and it turns out that the current ...
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Built-in back up system on Ubuntu
I now use an external 2 TB HDD to store backups in case of a system crash. If Ubuntu fails to boot for any reason, how do I use the external HDD to recover the system to its full glory with all the ...
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How to have the "Restore Missing Files" function from Nautilus without installing Nautilus?
I find the "Restore Missing Files" function in Nautilus very useful. In fact, it's literally the only reason I have Nautilus installed! (I typically use Lubuntu or at least LXDE)
Today I was ...
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Layers of confusion about Deja-Dup encrypted backups
I've been happily rolling along with my Deja-Dup backups to remote Google Drive for a month or so. At some point, I may or may not have entered a passphrase. I may or may not have had a GPG key at the ...