unexpected large increase in size of backup

Any chance that your latest backup also includes the previous backup, e.g. because you are backing up to a (local) drive that is included?

I had deleted the previous backups before carrying out the new full
backup. I think the increase was due to the list of folders included
in the backup being changed - presumably accidentally by me - as the
larger backup included the default folders, whereas my previous
setting only included the home folder. Oddly enough, none of the
other settings (backup frequency, destination etc.) were reset to
default at the same time.

Is it customary to have two copies of each of the Simple Backup-
Configuration and Simple Backup- Restoration on the dash? This
configuration was set automatically when the dash was first installed
with the relevant ubuntu update.

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> Any chance that your latest backup also includes the previous backup,
> e.g. because you are backing up to a (local) drive that is included?
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Yes, two copies do exist. One is user and the other root. This should be indicated but isn't so they appear identical. I posted a patch to fix this some time ago (I think it should be somewhere on lp).

Thinking about that, possibly you did your first backup as user and the second as root by accident?

The only folder in root is the desktop. I didn't do a backup as root.

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> Yes, two copies do exist. One is user and the other root. This should be
> indicated but isn't so they appear identical. I posted a patch to fix
> this some time ago (I think it should be somewhere on lp).
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> Thinking about that, possibly you did your first backup as user and the
> second as root by accident?
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I should clarify my question. There are, as you mentioned, two instances of Simple Backup Config and Simple Backup Restore in the dash. One of them runs as you (user), the other as super user (a.k.a. root). You cannot tell the difference, except that when you start the super user one, you'll be asked for your password ('to perform administrative tasks' -- unless you just also did something else as super user, because the credentials linger around for some time like 5 minutes or so).

So, my question was about which instance (root or user) you ran, possibly different ones each time. This has no relevance to which directories are backed up, that is dictated by the configuration (which is also different for root or user).

I ran both of the instances of Simple Backup Config shown in the dash.
 As you say, one of them required my password, and the other did not.
There does not appear to be a backup file (*.ful or *.inc) in the root
directory.

On 04/01/2013, Anton <email address hidden> wrote:
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> Anton requested more information:
> I should clarify my question. There are, as you mentioned, two instances
> of Simple Backup Config and Simple Backup Restore in the dash. One of
> them runs as you (user), the other as super user (a.k.a. root). You
> cannot tell the difference, except that when you start the super user
> one, you'll be asked for your password ('to perform administrative
> tasks' -- unless you just also did something else as super user, because
> the credentials linger around for some time like 5 minutes or so).
>
> So, my question was about which instance (root or user) you ran,
> possibly different ones each time. This has no relevance to which
> directories are backed up, that is dictated by the configuration (which
> is also different for root or user).
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Which directory do you mean with 'root directory'?

You should check the target directory defined in /etc/sbackup.conf for root and ~/.config/sbackup/sbackup.conf for user.

for /etc/sbackup.conf target = /var/backup
for ~/.config/sbackup/sbackup.conf I do not appear to have a .config
folder in my file system

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> Which directory do you mean with 'root directory'?
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> You should check the target directory defined in /etc/sbackup.conf for
> root and ~/.config/sbackup/sbackup.conf for user.
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