Feature Request: Run scheduled backup only if target directory exists

Bug #804170 reported by AxelPhi
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Déjà Dup
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Currently I use an NFS mounted target directory to store my home dir backup. Works very good.
However, if the network is not working properly on bootup, the target directory might not be available.
On scheduled backups Deja Dup will then create the target folder and write a full scale backup to the directory that holds the mount point.

An option that allows Deja Dup only to run if the target directory already exists would prevent that.

I'm using
deja-dup 18.1.1-0ubuntu1.1
duplicity 0.6.13-0ubuntu1
On Ubuntu 11.04

Thanks for your work!

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Wayne Rodrigues (waynerod10) wrote :

Yeah! This would be good. The only reason I don't use "scheduled backup" is coz I backup on my portable HDD (which isn't always connected to my computer) - so I do it manually.
An important element of a good backup is a remote/offsite one. So something like this should be implemented.

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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote :

Wayne, Deja Dup has special support for external hard drives. It will just notify you "backup delay hard drive wasn't plugged in" and wait until you do plug it in to start the backup.

This request is for hard-to-detect sometimes-directories like NFS mounts.

Vej (vej)
Changed in deja-dup:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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