Déjà Dup

Disabling giobackend

Asked by Zhongfu Li

I have a problem with Déjà Dup, where anything that uses gvfs ends up hanging after a hundred or so files. It is kind of irritating as this means that I either have to 1) Backup to somewhere on my HDD, and rsync it daily to my NAS, or 2) mount the SMB share with the kernel CIFS module. 1) takes up unnecessary space on my HDD, while 2) might break as the machine in question is a laptop, and is being moved around frequently.

So... is there any way to disable giobackend (gvfs), and use something like NcFtp to transfer the backup files instead?

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Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#1

There isn't a way, unfortunately. Deja Dup relies on the functionality of gvfs, except in the case of its cloud backends... If you back up to Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloudfiles, or Ubuntu One, you won't be using gvfs, so can avoid that bug. But of course those may not be where you want to back up to. :-/

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Zhongfu Li (zhongfu) said : 		#2

Well, darn... that sucks a lot :(
I ended up getting the command that deja-dup used in the backup and using it to create a full backup. Hopefully there'll be an option soon... Also, they could add a rsync backend (like duplicity supports)