Déjà Dup

Problem with Deja dup backup

Asked by youthinkso

Hello!

Ubuntu Mate 16.04.1 - completely up to date.

I recently did a full back up of my primary user id /home/user directory. When restoring the directory I noticed immediately that several very important items were missing.

All of my desktop config and preferences were gone. I don't know what files they were contained in. Also, the .Mozilla and .Thunderbird directories were never backed up and of course could not be restored. I have since done the restore again to a separate directory for inspection. They are not there. Why were they not backed up when I explicitly told it to back up everything? There were no errors on backup or restore.

I have since done the full backup again (unencrypted). Sure as H.E.L.L. it will NOT backup those files and directories.

What is the point of a back up application that will not back up configurations, passwords. bookmarks, mail?

I don't mean to be disrespectful to those of you who volunteer to make this app available. I am mad as all get out because I lost nearly everything that takes my time to rebuild. That is why I backed it up.

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Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#1

That does sound bad! I'm sorry it lost data on you. :(

It should back those up if you specify your home directory, yeah. There are some directories it will quietly ignore, like ~/.cache and some others. But .mozilla and .thunderbird should be fine.

I'll create a bug report out of this question.

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