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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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That feature is on the wishlist, for now you can try setting the schedule to monthly in the preferences and setup your own schedule using crontab and deja-dup --backup.

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    12 years later and still not implemented :( Looks like I will need to turn off auto backup and find out how to trigger it manually from a cron job. Feb 21 at 22:13
  • @TimothyC.Quinn I have switched to borg backup these days. I run it with a cronjob, like you suggest in your answer.
    – Alex
    Feb 25 at 23:27
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    I used borg for years and it never let me down except when I had to restore, I found it rather slow for large datasets. I'm on the fence about the hash collision failure mode with borg's block de-duplication mechanism. I use ZFS snapshots for my primary backup mechanism and use duplicity (deja) for my onsite backup. Feb 26 at 2:59
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You can do this by disabling auto updates in Deja-Dup (Backups) and then running a cron job at a specific time.

To run daily at 2:00 AM add the following to crontab

0   2   *   *   *    deja-dup --backup

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