Déjà Dup

was my backup successful?

Asked by Jan

Every week Deja-Dup starts performing backups as expected but eventually no message is displayed indicating whether the backup was successful or not. Because I doubt, I started Deja-Dup from the terminal and it shows some disturbing messages ('CRITICAL') but I'm not sure what it means actually.

Could you let me know how I can ensure that my backup was successful and if any other problem exist?

Here is the terminal output (it is reproducible.):

hans@msi:~$ deja-dup-preferences

** (deja-dup-preferences:1910): CRITICAL **: deja_dup_config_location_add_volume_full: assertion `uuid != NULL' failed
** (deja-dup:1933): DEBUG: DuplicityInstance.vala:196: Running the following duplicity (1945) command: duplicity 'collection-status' '--exclude=/home/hans/Videos' '--exclude=/home/hans/Downloads' '--exclude=/home/hans/.local/share/Trash' '--exclude=/home/hans/.xsession-errors' '--exclude=/home/hans/.thumbnails' '--exclude=/home/hans/.Private' '--exclude=/home/hans/.gvfs' '--exclude=/home/hans/.adobe/Flash_Player/AssetCache' '--exclude=/home/hans/.cache/deja-dup' '--exclude=/home/hans/.cache' '--include=/home/hans' '--include=/home/herbert' '--exclude=/home/.ecryptfs/hans/.Private' '--exclude=/sys' '--exclude=/proc' '--exclude=/tmp' '--exclude=**' '--gio' 'ftp://hans@192.168.1.100/backup/deja-dup' '--no-encryption' '--verbosity=9' '--gpg-options=--no-use-agent' '--archive-dir=/home/hans/.cache/deja-dup' '--log-fd=21'

** (deja-dup:1933): DEBUG: DuplicityInstance.vala:568: duplicity (1945) exited with value 0

** (deja-dup:1933): DEBUG: DuplicityInstance.vala:196: Running the following duplicity (1949) command: duplicity '--exclude=/home/hans/Videos' '--exclude=/home/hans/Downloads' '--exclude=/home/hans/.local/share/Trash' '--exclude=/home/hans/.xsession-errors' '--exclude=/home/hans/.thumbnails' '--exclude=/home/hans/.Private' '--exclude=/home/hans/.gvfs' '--exclude=/home/hans/.adobe/Flash_Player/AssetCache' '--exclude=/home/hans/.cache/deja-dup' '--exclude=/home/hans/.cache' '--include=/home/hans' '--include=/home/herbert' '--exclude=/home/.ecryptfs/hans/.Private' '--exclude=/sys' '--exclude=/proc' '--exclude=/tmp' '--exclude=**' '--dry-run' '--gio' '--volsize=25' '/' 'ftp://hans@192.168.1.100/backup/deja-dup' '--verbosity=9' '--gpg-options=--no-use-agent' '--archive-dir=/home/hans/.cache/deja-dup' '--log-fd=24'

** (deja-dup:1933): DEBUG: DuplicityInstance.vala:571: duplicity (1949) process killed

** (deja-dup:1933): DEBUG: DuplicityInstance.vala:196: Running the following duplicity (1954) command: duplicity 'collection-status' '--exclude=/home/hans/Videos' '--exclude=/home/hans/Downloads' '--exclude=/home/hans/.local/share/Trash' '--exclude=/home/hans/.xsession-errors' '--exclude=/home/hans/.thumbnails' '--exclude=/home/hans/.Private' '--exclude=/home/hans/.gvfs' '--exclude=/home/hans/.adobe/Flash_Player/AssetCache' '--exclude=/home/hans/.cache/deja-dup' '--exclude=/home/hans/.cache' '--include=/home/hans' '--include=/home/herbert' '--exclude=/home/.ecryptfs/hans/.Private' '--exclude=/sys' '--exclude=/proc' '--exclude=/tmp' '--exclude=**' '--gio' 'ftp://hans@192.168.1.100/backup/deja-dup' '--verbosity=9' '--gpg-options=--no-use-agent' '--archive-dir=/home/hans/.cache/deja-dup' '--log-fd=25'

** (deja-dup:1933): DEBUG: DuplicityInstance.vala:568: duplicity (1954) exited with value 0

** (deja-dup:1933): DEBUG: DuplicityInstance.vala:196: Running the following duplicity (1957) command: duplicity '--exclude=/home/hans/Videos' '--exclude=/home/hans/Downloads' '--exclude=/home/hans/.local/share/Trash' '--exclude=/home/hans/.xsession-errors' '--exclude=/home/hans/.thumbnails' '--exclude=/home/hans/.Private' '--exclude=/home/hans/.gvfs' '--exclude=/home/hans/.adobe/Flash_Player/AssetCache' '--exclude=/home/hans/.cache/deja-dup' '--exclude=/home/hans/.cache' '--include=/home/hans' '--include=/home/herbert' '--exclude=/home/.ecryptfs/hans/.Private' '--exclude=/sys' '--exclude=/proc' '--exclude=/tmp' '--exclude=**' '--dry-run' '--gio' '--volsize=25' '/' 'ftp://hans@192.168.1.100/backup/deja-dup' '--verbosity=9' '--gpg-options=--no-use-agent' '--archive-dir=/home/hans/.cache/deja-dup' '--log-fd=26'

** (deja-dup:1933): DEBUG: DuplicityInstance.vala:568: duplicity (1957) exited with value 0

** (deja-dup:1933): WARNING **: BackendFile.vala:452: Vorgang wird vom Backend nicht unterstützt

** (deja-dup:1933): WARNING **: BackendFile.vala:452: Vorgang wird vom Backend nicht unterstützt

** (deja-dup:1933): DEBUG: DuplicityInstance.vala:196: Running the following duplicity (1965) command: duplicity '--exclude=/home/hans/Videos' '--exclude=/home/hans/Downloads' '--exclude=/home/hans/.local/share/Trash' '--exclude=/home/hans/.xsession-errors' '--exclude=/home/hans/.thumbnails' '--exclude=/home/hans/.Private' '--exclude=/home/hans/.gvfs' '--exclude=/home/hans/.adobe/Flash_Player/AssetCache' '--exclude=/home/hans/.cache/deja-dup' '--exclude=/home/hans/.cache' '--include=/home/hans' '--include=/home/herbert' '--exclude=/home/.ecryptfs/hans/.Private' '--exclude=/sys' '--exclude=/proc' '--exclude=/tmp' '--exclude=**' '--gio' '--volsize=25' '/' 'ftp://hans@192.168.1.100/backup/deja-dup' '--verbosity=9' '--gpg-options=--no-use-agent' '--archive-dir=/home/hans/.cache/deja-dup' '--log-fd=27'

** (deja-dup:1933): DEBUG: DuplicityInstance.vala:568: duplicity (1965) exited with value 0

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

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Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#2

I wouldn't worry about the critical message. Seems harmless.

What version of Deja Dup are you using? Modern versions do give a little popup to say the backup was successful, but old versions didn't.

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Jan (jan23) said : 		#3

Version: 20.1-0ubuntu0.2

Since Deja-Dup just exits without any message, I guess it crashes.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#4

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Jan (jan23) said : 		#5

This bug is still valid for me.

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Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#6

What desktop environment are you using?

The best way to make sure everything is OK is to actually try restoring.

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Jan (jan23) said : 		#7

I use the latest Ubuntu with Unity.

Actually I don't want to trigger a restore of my valuabe "production" data unless I'm confident that it's going to work. And I don't have enough space available to restore it to another location for testing purposes.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#8

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Jan (jan23) said : 		#9

Any other advise how to debug this issue?

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Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#10

You can try restoring just one file. Navigate to the file in your File Browser and right click on it, selecting "Revert to previous version"

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