Déjà Dup

Backup behaviour in absence of storage support

Asked by Davide Marchi

Hi Friends,
I would like to understand better how Déjà Dup woks.

My question is:
If at the scheduled backup the storage support is not plugged the backup obviously doesn't start.
But if I plug in the storage support the day after, at an unspecified hour, what does it do?

It sees that the backup of the day before was not party and it starts one instantly?

I've post the same question here (in italian language):
https://forum.ubuntu-it.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=627210&p=5048270#p5048270

Many thanks!

Davide

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Vej (vej) said : 		#1

Hello Davide!

If the "storage support" you are talking about is an external harddrive and the demon (Déjà Dup Monitor) is running, the outstanding backup will be done when the drive becomes available.

I think that it will be the same for other supported backends but can not guarantee this for every backend (cause I do only know the code for the external harddrive).

Best

Vej

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Davide Marchi (danjde) said : 		#2

Hi Vej and thanks for you kind and useful reply!

Well, using an usb harddisk.
Anyway, could you suggest me how is it possible to verify if the Déjà Dup Monitor daemon is running? And eventually how set it running for a user session, tipically Gnome?

Many many thanks!

Davide

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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