*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 985512 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/985512
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 985512
support system backups (set up a backup run by root)
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Well if Deja Dup is Ubuntu's general / packaged backup solution and it
can not backup system files, then Ubuntu is by default not able to to
proper system backups, only user data backups. Which is a really big
limitation.
I would strongly recommend to add the ability to backup vital system
folder
Michael, thanks for the information.
In that case I agree that file exclusion would be useful. As it is I'll
just add some more directories to the exclusion list, and change a few
file permissions to work around the issue.
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The change was that Deja Dup now reports such failures to the user. I
had originally not reported them because of cases like /etc/shadow,
where it would just be noise. But I had several cases where users
thought they had backed something up (like another user's home folder),
never received a noti
I'm also not convinced that running as root would be advisable. I think
the question here is why the situation changed from 11.10 to 12.04. I
suspect the problem is not actually with Déjà Dup, but with a change in
permissions with how diverse files are generated. I would have preferred
to file this
While I'm not sure running the backup as root is the way to go, reducing
the noise of the report would be a good start IMO.
To do that, being able to exclude *files* would help a lot. The current
exclusion mechanism only allows to exclude folders. This means that a
user backing up /etc will always
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: deja-dup (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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** Attachment added: "Example list of files that failed backup"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1016012/+attachment/3198746/+files/filelist.txt
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