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Déjà Dup is a gnome app front-end to the encrypting backup utility duplicity, which has its own tag.

The Déjà Dup (pronounced day-ja-doop) Gnome application provides a simple GUI to for encrypted regular backups to local devices or remote sites.

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How to start GUI of Deja Dup in Debian 8.1?

I installed Deja dup by sudo apt-get install deja-dup but I cannot find it in Search. It appears in commandline, but not like in Ubuntu like here. I did not find any GUI for deja-dup in apt-cache search/apt-file search. I only find the application…
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How to verify a deja-dup backup using duplicity

This evening, I had to hard shut down my computer after some kind of kernel panic. When I rebooted, I noticed my ~/.ssh/id_rsa had been replaced with an empty file. Rebooting to a USB and running fsck on my home partition reported that the…
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How to store Deja Dup full backup remotely

I'm keeping a copy of all my Deja Dup backup in my Dropbox. To conserve disk space, I'm wondering if I can delete the local copy of the duplicity-full.*.difftar, keeping only .sigtar to allow future incremental backup. I did try move away…
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How can I fix this gpg error with Backup (deja-dup, duplicity)?

Every day when I have a scheduled backup running, I see this error: Error processing remote manifest (duplicity-inc.20190724T191929Z.to.20190726T191408Z.manifest.gpg): GPG Failed, see log below: ===== Begin GnuPG log ===== gpg: WARNING:…
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Backing up to a local SSD taking a lot longer than expected

On a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 system I decided to give Deja-Dup a go. It's just a GUI for Duplicity (which uses rsync). About 850GB of data needed to be backed up. Source SSD was NVMe. Destination SSD was SATA. Initial (full) backup took about 7…
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Déjà Dup .gpg backup files are significantly less than backed-up material, how to be certain it's working?

I've been using the Déjà Dup backup tool with Linux Mint for a while now and just decided to investigate whether it actually works (short of trying to restore, as I only have one machine and don't want to break it!). In snooping around, I have two…
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Deja-Dup with encryption: disable Keyring

I backup my data on an external drive using Deja-Dup. I chose to encrypt the backup. Now, every time I start my PC, Mint asks me to unlock my Keyring. How can I grant my PC automatic access to the encryption password (and only to that)?
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using deja dup with rsync server

I used Deja Dup on Ubuntu since years with an remote NFS share. Now I have a new home server, which also runs an rsync daemon. How can I connect deja Dup to this daemon instead of NFS? I found out how to connect duplicity from the command line of…
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Problems with Deja-Dup

I am having difficulty restoring a backup with deja-dup. I am also having difficulty understanding the advice given in the help documentation that comes with the software. I think the problem I am having is that I did not have write permissions for…
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Running out of space restoring a file with Duplicity

I'm trying to restore a VDI file for VirtualBox from a Duplicity backup. The VDI file is about 40 GB. I have 189 GB (including ~/.cache/duplicity that is fully synced) of free space when I start the restore in the drive I try to restore the file…
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"Backups" (deja-dup): after installing duplicity 0.8 from source, "Backups" can't find it

When using "Backups" (a.k.a. deja-dup) - it doesn't find duplicity, although it's installed: I have been trying to backup using "Backups" (a.k.a. deja-dup), and it turns out that the current duplicity (which deja-dup uses) still has the "Unicode…
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To backup to XFS disc by imaging and file-system level

I am interested in image the internal HDD and backup just the filesystem file as backups. My external HDD is 2TB while 100 GB is only used in my internal HDD. Both methods are welcome here. Code and situation $ ls -la /dev/sdb brwx---rwx 1 root…
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