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"Full backup" feature is preventing Deja Dup from doing its job

Asked by Jens Moser

I have my backup schedule set to "daily" and backup using SSH.

Deja Dup has decided it needs to do a full backup of my ~3 GB home folder (it does not give me a choice to continue backing up incrementally instead). The backup would take roughly 12 hours; however, after 10 hours my hosting provider resets the SSH connection and the backup fails. When it is started the next time, it resumes at 0% progress and tries again for 10 hours until failure because of connection reset.

In effect, a feature that is supposed to help increase backup reliability has been preventing me from making any backups at all for over 3 weeks. I hope this can be done better somehow.

Thank you,
JMoser

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Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#1

I bet you're being affected by bug 902985. That bug prevents encrypted backups from being able to be resumed (they just start over at 0% like you say). :-/ It's fixed in trunk and on Ubuntu 12.04.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Jens Moser (pew) said : 		#2

I'm running Fedora 16. Any chance of fixing the bug without installing unstable software?

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Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#3

The best workaround for now is to not encrypt the backup when you create it.

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Jens Moser (pew) said : 		#4

Unfortunately, not encrypting is not an option for me.

Thank you anyway, it is good to see that the community is vibrant enough to provide near-instant response times! I love Deja Dup and will continue to use it.

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