Status and check-tab missing

[mkoniecz]

There is no method to manually trigger check of completeness and integrity of archive.

It is sometimes done in background ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1055356 ) but method to manually request it would be highly useful (example usecase: I want to be a able to create backup, verify it, wipe system and restore it.).

State directly after install.

lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS

dpkg-query -W deja-dup duplicity
deja-dup 30.0-0ubuntu4
duplicity 0.6.23-1ubuntu4.1

file created by gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.DejaDup > /tmp/deja-dup.gsettings
org.gnome.DejaDup last-restore ''
org.gnome.DejaDup periodic false
org.gnome.DejaDup full-backup-period 90
org.gnome.DejaDup backend 'file'
org.gnome.DejaDup last-run ''
org.gnome.DejaDup nag-check ''
org.gnome.DejaDup prompt-check ''
org.gnome.DejaDup root-prompt true
org.gnome.DejaDup include-list ['$HOME']
org.gnome.DejaDup exclude-list ['/home/mateusz/.local/share/Trash']
org.gnome.DejaDup last-backup ''
org.gnome.DejaDup periodic-period 7
org.gnome.DejaDup delete-after 0
org.gnome.DejaDup.S3 id ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.S3 bucket ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.S3 folder 'Grisznak'
org.gnome.DejaDup.Rackspace username ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.Rackspace container 'Grisznak'
org.gnome.DejaDup.File path 'file:///home/mateusz/deja-dup'
org.gnome.DejaDup.File short-name ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.File uuid ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.File icon ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.File relpath @ay []
org.gnome.DejaDup.File name ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.File type 'normal'

[Naël (nathanael-naeri)]

See my comment #5 about a possible CLI solution on the bug report you linked to.

As for an actual way of triggering a verification through the GUI, I'm not sure it is worth it since it adds clutter in the interface, a verification is run after each backup and a more complete one every two months, and it could make an average user think the backup solution is unreliable and the backups it makes need regular checking.

[Vej (vej)]

As a start we could make a command line option "deja-dup self-test" or something like that.