Do DejaDup error messages signify no truly cloned backup?

Asked by jimwg

Greetings!

Very helpful and educational forums here! Keep up the great work!

One thing to reassure me, please and please excuse me if I'm seemingly clueless. I use Deja Dup to back up Ubuntu 12.10 and regularly get that "not all your files were backed up and check if you can read them" and it lists many "obscure" files to me. My first question is Deja Dup the backup program to use if I want to totally recreate/clone my backup on a clean drive? Not just Home, but the works. If so, am I missing vital files to backup with that above alert message and how should I remedy that so I do get a true fully cloned backup?

Thanks for any education on this!

Jim in NYC

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Michael Terry (mterry) said :
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So... Deja Dup is not *designed* to work for your whole drive. It's interface and features are optimized for personal $HOME backups.

That said, it can work for the whole drive. But you are likely to see lots of messages like you are, because your normal user can't read all files on the hard drive. It's difficult to run Deja Dup as root (can't do scheduled backups that way, but you can do manual backups as root via sudo).

I've heard good things about sbackup and Back in Time, if you look at another backup app.

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