Déjà Dup

Move backup location (from usb drive to ssh)

Asked by Laurent Schoupi

Hi,

I wanted to backup around 200Gb off-site. The connection is slow so it would have taken more than a week to make the first backup (connection speed between the two are around 100k/s). So, i took a usb drive and used deja-dup to back it up there (/media/MEVIA/CMU7000_D). Once the backup done, i took the hard drive and brought it to a server away. Now i want deja-dup to make only incremental backups on it while connecting through ssh (/shares/usb1-1.4share1/CMU7000_D). I changed the location on deja-dup and launched it, but the backup never starts. I stays at "Preparing" for ages.

Is it something I should be able to do ? Are there stuff to do differently (.i.e. not encrypt) ?

Thanks a lot.

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Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#1

A) DD will occasionally make full backups for you. It won't make incrementals forever. See https://live.gnome.org/DejaDup/HowItWorks#Full_Backups for why.

B) You should in theory be able to move the backup. There is a blog post by someone that did a similar thing, and he even talks about making sure to keep the cache files: http://blog.linux2go.dk/2011/01/20/moving-duplicity-and-hence-deja-dup-backups/

C) File a bug about the preparing issue and make sure to include the deja-dup.log file requested by the bug form.

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Laurent Schoupi (schoupi) said : 		#2

Thanks Michael for your useful comments.

A) I am aware of the full backups. This is a great thing. I thought that the moment DejaDup would ask for a full backup again, i'd move the external HDD and plug it again to my computer as i did the first backup.

B) Thanks for this very useful blog post. It really helped as i am able now to make backups again.

C) Okay, i'll fill a bug and try to be a complete a possible.