Back In Time

Cannot save on external device

Asked by Peter

Hello,

I would like to save to an external device. I've setted up the following folder:

/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time

The folder has write permissions. If I try to write something like that

date >> foo.txt

... by my terminal in this directory, it works.

If I try

backintime --backup-job

from terminal, I'm getting the following output:

jepster@jepster:~$ backintime --backup-job

Back In Time
Version: 1.0.10

Back In Time comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `backintime --license' for details.

INFO: Lock
INFO: [GnomePlugin.Systray.run]
INFO: on process begins
 INFO: [GnomePlugin.Systray.run] begin loop
INFO: Profile_id: 1
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
^C/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
^C/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
/media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1 does not exist
WARNING: Can't find snapshots folder !
INFO: [GnomePlugin.Systray.run] end loop
INFO: Unlock

(backintime.py:13134): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.34.1/./gobject/gsignal.c:2576: instance `0x1f1b260' has no handler with id `27'

What's wrong? I'm on Ubuntu 12.10. Help would be very appreciated - I need such a good tool like Time Machine on Ubuntu. :-)

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Germar (germar) said : 		#1

Hi Peter,

This should only happen if your drive is not connected. In this case BIT will retry for 30 sec.
If you are sure that your drive was connected, please check if the subfolders 'backintime/jepster/jepster/1' exist ('ls -la /media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1'). They should be created during initial configuration.
If not you can try to create them manually ('mkdir -p /media/jepster/Backup/Back In Time/backintime/jepster/jepster/1') or remove your config and start over again ('rm ~/.config/backintime/config')

Regards,
Germar

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