Déjà Dup

How to verify that the regular backup is activated

Asked by Huygens

In the preferences of Déjà Dup, I have activated weekly backup.
How can I verify that this activation is working? Visually, I cannot see anything. The crontab is also empty. The only I can spot is a 'deja-dup-monitor' process.
It would be handy to know at which date the next backup is running. Is there a Gnome panel applet for that?

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Best Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#1

There is currently not much management allowed for that feature.

It's not done via crontab (since we want to run as part of the user's session). deja-dup-monitor does kick it off, but largely at a time of its choosing.

This is intentional, to avoid complicating the UI and with the long-term objective of being transparent. Eventually, I'd like Déjà Dup to automatically resume and not use bandwidth if the network needs it (QoS). So it wouldn't quite matter so much to the user when it backs up. (Think of a system like Apple's Time Machine that transparently backs up.)

But I understand that until Déjà Dup is quite so transparent, it's annoying not to have that control. Sorry. Perhaps there should be some sort of preference for that until Déjà Dup rocks hard enough not to need it.

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Huygens (huygens-25) said : 		#2

Thanks Michael Terry, that solved my question.

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Huygens (huygens-25) said : 		#3

Do not excuse yourself :-) you did a great job. I'm a new user and exploring the possibilities of your tool! Thank you for making it.

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hewbert (josh-hewbert) said : 		#4

This is a good question that answers one of my own - exactly when IS it backing up..

Michael, you mentioned that deja-dup-monitor chooses when it backs up transparently. Is there anyway to influence that at all, or at least determine when this time may be? I'd prefer to have mine backup at a time when I know it's "ready" (not using the computer, etc).

One thing I like about Time Machine is the menu bar icon - telling you when the next backup is. I'd personally prefer this as an option, even if the process is transparent.

Thanks for your work on this utility - it's definitely nice.

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Martin Benson (martin-zelemo) said : 		#5

I think what I'd like to know is not such much WHEN the backup happened as WHETHER it happened. Is there a log-file somewhere? I can't see any sign of one...