Déjà Dup

  1. Bug #1641423
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 1641423

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Naël (nathanael-naeri) wrote : Re: Back up failed with message: Failed to execute child process "duplicity" (No such file or directory)

@Steve:

Great! Unless something went wrong during installation and you were left with half-installed packages or broken dependencies (a rare happenstance that you can rule out with the command "sudo apt-get check" if you wish), then your system has both duplicity and python-gi and things should be running smooth. In particular, the gi.repository python module should be present and you shouldn't have any error about it not being found any longer.

> Right now when I run deja-dup it "runs" but it just runs a backup and
> then closes.

If by "running deja-dup" you mean starting a backup, either by running "deja-dup --backup" on the command line, or by clicking the "Back Up Now" button in the "System Settings > Backup" GUI (that GUI is called deja-dup-preferences and can be called from the command line by running "deja-dup-preferences", incidentally), then what you report is normal operation: the backup is started and its progress window closes automatically at the end if it is successful.

If by "running deja-dup" you mean opening its "System Settings > Backup" GUI (deja-dup-preferences), then you're describing another issue. That GUI is not supposed to close right away when you open it.

> I have no control over the gui at all except to start it running.

Same here: if you mean you can't setup Déjà Dup using its GUI (adding includes and excludes, setting up the backup location and frequency...), then you're describing a different problem. For such an issue I think you should open a new bug report since the current bug report is about missing the duplicity package.

Feel free to attach screenshots of your problem, or the files requested by Vej in comments 10 and 14, with the "Add attachment or patch" link below.