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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Deja-Dup, Duplicity: 31 GPGError, decryption failed: Bad session key
I'm using Deja-Dup for years to backup my desktop system to a local NAS. A while ago it stopped working. I tried using a new, clean destination folder on the NAS as well as numerous hints from the web,...
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Is it possible to restrict Deja Dup backup by network?
I want to restrict Deja Dup backup of my laptop to only my home network. It's not a big deal as it just fails if I'm working somewhere else but I wonder if it still possible to do?
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How to get a date range for Deja-Dup / Duplicity backup?
I'm using TimeShift as recommended for system backup. It's worked so well I've been donating to the project. I'm using Deja-Dup and Duplicity for backing up all user files (the /home directory) to ...
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deja-dup/duplicity: Backup Failed InvalidBackendURL
I have launched a backup on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Déjà Dup Backup Tool and it fails with the following error:
Backup Failed InvalidBackendURL: missing // - relative paths not supported for scheme ...
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Vastly different size of directories in deja-dup and back in time?
I have used deja-dup for years. Today I've installed Back in Time. Both deja and BIT have backed up my /home today. (only object backed up is /home)
Nautilus shows the deja-dup files at 29gig. The ...
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Copy a duplicity backup to another destination
I have a Duplicity backing up to an S3 bucket. It has n backups, acquired over a few years. I've recently bought an external drive to have a more local version immediately available. Is there a ...
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How do you change the backup location on Deja-Dup?
I want to switch the Deja Dup backup location to a different drive but can't see an option to do this. How can it be done?
Is there a way to manage the utility other than the UI, which seems to be ...
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Duplicity Restore Failed
I was having some issues with my laptop connecting to wifi, so I decided just to reinstall the OS. I made a backup with Duplicity and moved it to my phone, made a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04, then ...
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What to do when deja-dup restore failed?
I have a full backup done by deja-dup in a external HD of about 300Gb.
I'm trying to restore it into another 1tb external HD, but when 58Gb was extracted an error have occurred :(
Traceback (...
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How to restore a deja-dup backup using a ubuntu booted from usb live?
I had my hd broken and now I'm using a live ubuntu booted from a usb.
I need to restore my backup into a external hard-drive.
I was able to start deja-dup and select my backup hd, but it gives a ...
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Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS backup failed
Hi I am a new user so be gentle! I have been getting on really well with Ubuntu since escaping from MS, but have encountered a problem with a scheduled backup, using Déjà Dup Backup Tool and a failed ...
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Deja-dup everytime creates a fresh first backup
Whenever I execute /snap/bin/deja-dup --backup, dejadup ask me for the password and creates backup for the first time (in Google drive). This happens even after the full backup has successfully ...
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How can I restore a folder backed up on my old computer running Ubuntu to my new one?
To my surprise and delight I was able to do this. I figured I should document it somewhere. It synthesizes a couple other answers I found to guide me but focuses on a case that I haven't seen ...
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Error using Backups in Ubuntu 18.10 (it was Deja Dup)
My final goal is to have a full backup of the system (like time-machine) and use it to reinstall it in case of disaster.
The intermediate goal is to backup all the working areas more times over the ...
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Reading full deja-dup progress log
While restoring backed-up data, the attending window shows the last 100 actions in the Details box. Especially for lengthy operations, I would be interested in perusing the full list and seeing what ...
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Extract unencrypted duplicity backup when all sigtar and most manifest files are missing
I am trying to extract a backup from an old duplicity back up (done by the ubuntu gui, I believe it was deja-dup).
I copied all I could off a dying hard drive. I have
a lot of difftar.gz files - ...
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Deja Dup - last run results? [duplicate]
I'm still in search of a good backup scheme for my Xubuntu 18.04 machine.
In looking at Deja Dup (aka Backups), it seems dead simple and it said it successfully backed up my data. And it runs once a ...
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18.10 Deja Dup Backup error
When running the back on 18.10 (Deja Dup) to my Google Drive I have several problems. The most obvious it I get this error message:
Giving up after 5 attempts. Error: gdata-service-error-quark: ...
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Deja Dup Backup Tool - When does automatic backup occur
Specs:
deja-dup 30.0-0ubuntu4.1
Elementary OS 0.3.2 Freya (64-bit)
Ubuntu 14.04
I came across this page, explaining how to use the Deja Dup Backup Tool, and it looks exactly like the tool I need. ...
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deja-dup restore not prompting for passphrase and subsequently failing
I'm trying to use Deja-Dup's "Restore Missing" command from within Nautilus to restore some Music files I had accidentally deleted a few months back. Trouble is, I keep getting gpg: bad passphrase ...
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Deja dup backup fails
Backing up using Deja Dup to an external drive is failing, it used to work fine.
Last backup was 43 days ago. When I attempt to backup, Deja Dup decides to do a full fresh backup not incremental.
At ...
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Salvaging a failed Deja Dup backup?
I recently did a clean re-install of Ubuntu 18.04. I'd been keeping regular backups using Deja-Dup to a 75GB USB HD).
When I tried to restore I got "Storage location not available¨ (and similar ...
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backup with Dèja Dup and Duplicity returns an error
I'm using Ubuntu 18.10 and the backup tool Dèja Dup
It returns the following error:
File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 453, in <lambda> vol_num: put(tdp, dest_filename, vol_num),
File "/usr/bin/...
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Automatic uncompressed backup/folder syncing to smb share
I have an smb share, an Ubuntu laptop and a Windows Desktop. The Desktop is backing up one of its drives to the smb share using Windows file history (keeping a local copy). If I want I can access that ...
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Permission Problems with Déjà Dup
When trying to back up my system, I get the following error. I know that there is something going on with permissions but I just do not know exactly what that something is. Will someone please help me?...
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How to configure gdrive for deja-dup?
Currently using Kubuntu 18.04. I am trying to set up deja-dup to backup my files to my Google Drive. I have already added my google accounts and can access my files on Google Drive through dolphin.
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Can I delete the Deja-dup files if I no longer need the backup
I have a laptop with limited storage and was looking to free up some space and notice that this file is alomost 16 gb. I haven't backed up anything in over a year and have no need for that backup ...
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Can I access files directly after backup with Deja Dup?
I'm wanting to use Backups (Deja Dup), but I'm wondering if the files will be directly accessible off the hard disk after I've done my backup? Or do I need to perform a recovery in order to access the ...
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Deja Dup / Boto S3 backup getting 403 with valid credentials
I'm using Deja Dup to backup my laptop to S3. This has been working for many backups but as of 20 days ago stopped working.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1532, ...
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Deja-Dup does not remember network share password even though "remember password" box was ticked
Using Deja-Dup to back up to a network share from a Lubuntu 18.04.1 laptop.
Deja-Dup properly asks for credentials for the share, and offers the option to save the password by ticking a box. Which I ...
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ftp command times out in 18.04
I recently upgraded my server from 16.04 to 18.04. I have alway's used the command ftp://[email protected]/ in Deja Dup on my laptop (also recently upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 from 17.10)to make ...
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Deja-dup local restore fails, waiting for Google config
I backed up from Ubuntu 16.04 to a USB hard drive using Deja-Dup. Following a system crash I tried to restore the data files to my new system drive running 18.04.
Deja-Dup offers a choice of backup ...
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Duplicity Restore Failure under Ubuntu 18.04
My Duplicity backup created under Ubuntu 16.04 cannot be restored under 18.04. The backup is on an external Linq hard disk. Is there any chance of recovering the backup hard disk? This the message ...
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Ubuntu (18.04) Backup (DejaDup) repeatedly asks for password
My Ubuntu backup is repeatedly asking for my password and it will not accept the password that I have previously been using. I have already checked to ensure that various directories in my home ...
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Can I recover Thunderbird e-mails from a recent backup in Xubuntu 16.04 into a recently installed version of Xubuntu 18.04?
I worked with Xubuntu 16.04 for some years and tried to upgrade to version 18.04 some time ago. Every week I made a backup with 'deja-dup'.
The upgrade to 18.04 failed and I had to decide installing ...
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Cannot hide Google Drive icon from nautilus menu
Ever since I had selected my google drive account as my default storage location in Déjà Dup, an annoying icon with the name of my account shows up at the right side of my nautilus menu.
When I ...
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Déjà Dup doesn't open a window when doing the backup
I have updated to 18.04.1 from 16.04.5 a few weeks ago and I noticed that Déjà Dup doesn't open a window when doing the backup like it used to (as far as I can say, the backup is done without problem)....
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Scenario for using deja-dup for restoration [closed]
I use deja-dup and Clonezilla for backups.
What scenario would there be where deja-dup would be used to restore?
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Post 18.04.1 - Deja Dup cannot detect the mounted & ready optical disk (CD)
The CD contents are visible in "Files" but "Deja Dup" is not detecting it.
In previous versions of Ubuntu, I could stop & restart the backup utility. The CD would then be detected and the backup ...
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Problem with '/usr/share/doc/libperl5.26'
Ubuntu!
Well, I'm running Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) on VirtualBox with a Windows 7 Ultimate host.
When I click Deja Dup Backup, it loads, but when I click Back Up Now it tells me to install '...
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The deja-dup-monitor allocates 112G of virtual memory - is it normal?
I have clean installation of Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS with MATE DE.
In htop I see that deja-dup-monitor wants 112G of virtual memory.
Is it normal?
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18.04, Deja Dup, backup to AWS S3 bucket
18.04 has a nag message about backups. I tried to configure it to backup to an AWS s3 bucket, as I'd done in 16.04.
The new Deja Dup UI doesn't show AWS S3 as an option in "Online Accounts"
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Deja: Save backup at more places
I want make a backup with deja and save this backup local and about ssh for example.
Is it possible to choose two or more places?
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Restore individual folders from full backup using duplicity/deja
I have done a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver). I would like to selectively restore some folders from a backup performed using duplicity on Ubuntu 12.04 to avoid overriding my home folder....
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Backup the system, upgrade the os version and restore backup.. the whole process?
I'm using Ubunutu 15.04 at the moment and I want to upgrade it to 16.04 without losing any of my data(I guess it means home directory).
I found a resource like this and think of using it but, first, ...
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Deja Dup fails to restore because it can't write to the directory
Installed Ubuntu 18.04 from a USB drive and wanted to restore a directory from the external backup drive that had been done previously on 17.10. After selecting the files listed by Deja Dup the ...
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Restoring files and folders from Deja Dup backup
I had hoped restoring files and folders backed up with Deja Dup would be a straight forward process but unfortunately this is not the case.
This is my predicament: a week ago I foolishly decided to ...
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Deja dup backup permission issue
After solving this issue here:
Restore backup using Deja Dup failed
I get now always this issue when try to make new backup:
Permission denied when trying to read ‘/duplicity-inc.20180611T065903Z.to....
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Restore backup using Deja Dup failed
I get this error when try to restore a backup:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1532, in <module>
with_tempdir(main)
File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line ...
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Automatic backup using deja dup on 2 location: locally and usbdrive
I have setup automatic backup on local folder /home/zoroaster/backup
and everything work fine, backup and restore.
I would like now to setup a second backup on external usbdrive, so that in case ...