Déjà Dup

  1. Bug #1641423
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 1641423

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Naël (nathanael-naeri) wrote : Re: Back up failed with message: Failed to execute child process "duplicity" (No such file or directory)

@Vej:

Thanks for the precisions. I still can't figure out how you ended up with duplicity installed and deja-dup-backend-gvfs not installed, this should not have happened, judging from my understanding of the code and of the situation you report. And a 16.04 install overwriting a 14.04 install doesn't change anything about that.

As for a backup starting when you plug in your hard drive on your 16.04 system, that is normal: the configuration for that backup was saved in the dconf database in your $HOME when you were using 14.04, and you preserved /home.

And as for that backup resulting in a "Failed to execute child process "duplicity" (No such file or directory)" error, that again was normal: your fresh 16.06 system did not include duplicity since its version of Déjà Dup was 34.1+. As you report, opening deja-dup-preferences (the GUI) and clicking the appropriate button solved that issue.

What is not normal is Déjà Dup even trying to start a backup when duplicity is not present, instead of prompting the user to open deja-dup-preferences and request the installation of the missing software.