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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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.
/var/cache/apt/archives/lock
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Is it possible to restore only one directory with the backup utility?
I use the default backup utility of ubuntu (deja-dup) in the settings panel. Today I delete by error one directory. I tried to restore it but I did not succeed. Must I restore all my backup if I only ...
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Can I restore a backup on a different computer than it was made?
I am using the default backup software for Ubuntu 14.04(deja dup). It backs up weekly to a network location.
I'm about to put a new hard drive in my laptop, and I would rather just install ubuntu and ...
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Why can Déjà Dup not complete the backup of .cache/dconf and .gvfs?
I'm 24hrs into using Déjà Dup. All seems well apart from this error message:
Backup Finished
Could not back up the following files. Please make sure you are able
to open them.
/home/...
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Deja-dup repeatedly asks encryption password
Folks,
I have been in trouble with deja-dup, Ubuntu backup utility. It asks encryption password every time when back up starts. I entered every related passwords (server's one, client's one, and all ...
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Can I ignore files by pattern in deja-dup (Backup)?
My Déjà Dup backups have become quiet large and I noticed they contain a huge number of unnecessary files (e.g. *.pyc files, **__pycache__ folders and other build related temporary stuff).
I know ...
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How do I move my encrypted /home to a new computer?
Hi I have a new notebook and I want to move my home data to the new computer.
I think there are multiple ways of doing this
copy all to a external hdd and move back on new computer
do an Deja-Dup ...
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How to restore a broken Deja Dup backup manually
For various reasons (possibly this bug) a Deja Dup backup I made failed. I have been following this guide to restore my backup by hand. The steps have been:
In the folder containing the backups run:
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How can I set up hourly Deja-Dup backups?
Is there a way I get the amazing Deja-dup to make me hourly backups in addition to daily, weekly, biweekly etc? If not, is there something else that I could use instead?
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How can I test the integrity of a backup made with Backup (Deja Dup)?
I'm running 11.10 and did a backup with the default program titled "Backup" (Deja Dup).
How can I know that it backed up my files correctly / completely?
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How can I change what time Deja Dup does its backup?
I believe it automatically runs at midnight, but I would rather it run during an off-peak internet period to save my quota.
How can I change the time it runs?
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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:
duplicity-full....
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How do I backup all files? (.dbus and dconf backup problems)
What are /home/user/.cache/dconf and /home/user/.dbus? Why does their backup fail?
I tried following this 2013 answer (see code below) but while it allowed me to backup the above files, now I am told ...
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Is it possible to backup individual files with Deja Dup?
In the Deja Dup preferences, it is possible to select certain folders to backup and certain folders to exclude.
I would like to be able to backup individual files in my Home folder (Such as .vimrc ...
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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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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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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:
duplicity-inc.20130124T230054Z.to.20130201T225108Z....
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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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How would I use Deja Dup on a password protected SMB share?
How would I use Deja Dup to backup to a password protected SMB (on a samba server) share?
Note: not a duplicate, I put a bounty on my previous question, and nobody answered it after a month.
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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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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 to prevent deja-dup-monitor from running, or completely delete it?
My ubuntu is dead after a few minutes because a process called deja-dup-monitor consumes almost 7 GB memory. I searched the internet and found that it seems to be used for backups and related to the "...
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Deja Dup`s "Back Up Now" button is not highlighted
I have setup my backup folder and put the Automatic backups switch to on. In the Overview tab I cant press the "Back Up Now" because it is grayed out.
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and here is the content ...
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How do I create multiple backup jobs using DejaDup backup service?
I'd like to have different backup jobs scheduled at different times and frequencies (for instance, backup my Documents folder daily, but my music folder only on weekends), or backup daily to my local ...
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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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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 /var/...
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Amazon S3 option missing in Deja Dup?
I wanted to restore my backup (created with Deja Dup on Fedora 15) from Amazon S3, but the option to set up Amazon as storage location in Ubuntu's Deja Dup seems to be missing.
I only have Ubuntu One,...
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How to delete all the settings for Deja Dup
When I upgraded to 11.04 Deja Dup started behaving strangely, it would begin a new full backup everytime the computer was started because it was looking for a drive and folder which I had removed some ...
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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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Why does Déjà Dup say there is no space left?
I'm trying to backup my home directory (excluding a few folders). The backup is saved on a ~300 GB partition (called backups) of an internal drive, but not the same drive as the home directory. When I ...
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Deja-Dup Google Drive Support
I tried to search to see if Google Drive is supported the same way Ubuntu One is supported for Deja-Dup but I haven't seen anything concrete. I don't want to store a local copy of the backed up files, ...
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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?
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I've enabled the Amazon S3 backup location, but I don't see a way to specify ...
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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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How do I open deja-dup during a current backup?
I've got deja-dup doing regular backups and today it began one in the background. This will take a few hours and I want to pause it.
Unfortunately, when I try to do so, the usual backup window that ...
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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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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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Can a Deja Dup backup from Ubuntu be restored on Windows?
My laptop got broken recently (I had Ubuntu on it), and I've backups of my files on external HDD. The problem is that my new laptop has Windows 8 on it and I don't feel like switching to Ubuntu on it ...
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Can I use my Ubuntu One account to backup with Déjà Dup?
I would like to use my Ubuntu One account to back up some files with Déjà Dup. Is this possible?
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"Backup Failed": Could not restore ‘~/.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup
I'm starting backup from the 'Settings' app, clicking the 'Back Up Now...' button. It seems to back up fine, but when it get to 'verifying backup...' the error message shows up:
Backup Failed.
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How to fix a "Software caused connection abort" error in Ubuntu 14.04?
I just performed a clean install (not an upgrade) to Ubuntu 14.04 (64-bit, PC desktop ISO) on a PC that previously had Ubuntu 12.04 installed. Upon trying to restore my \home directory from a Samba ...
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Reduce process priority of built-in deja dup/duplicity process in Unity
I use the integrated backup service of Ubuntu 16.04/Unity provided by deja dup/duplicity. Whenever a backup is performed, my system becomes very slow (annoying but still usable) due to the complex ...
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How to make a backup with deja-dup from command line?
I have been using deja-dup GUI for quiet some time and I am very satisfied with it. However, I would also like to execute the same profile via command line. Is that possible?
In particular, I would ...
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Deja dup: Permission denied when trying to read manifest on davfs
I have been using Déjà Dup to create backups for several years. Recently it started to fail with the message
Permission denied when trying to read ‘/duplicity-inc.20161201T072516Z.to.20161202T074205Z....
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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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Backup failing with No Space Left error
So I have a backup partition set aside on my 100GB HDD (old computer) of about 30 GB. I have some files that I want both Windows and Ubuntu to access (a NTFS partition) as well as the backup directory ...
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Can I continue working when backup is in progress?
I would like to use Ubuntu backup (Déjà Dup) to back up the whole system on an external HDD. Can I use the OS (make changes to files) while the full backup is being made? How is this going to affect ...
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How do you monitor DejaDup's progress?
I have "Backup" DejaDup app backing up my home folder to an encrypted external USB hard drive, but it takes hours. The GUI's "backup now" button is grayed out, indicating it's running, and Gnome says "...
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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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deja-dup ssh method doesn't work - writes locally instead
After years of rsync, I'm giving deja-dup a try. Not so successful, so far:
Every attempt to have it write its backup via ssh results in a local directory tree opened at the directory where the deja-...
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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 ...