Comment 6 for bug 1691865

> That said, I think this bug is still valid - I don't believe that Deja-Dup
> is handling whatever gvfs returns properly, resulting in the blank screen.

Point taken. I suppose this could be improved, indeed. It's beyond my current abilities though, sorry.

> Deja-Dup wasn't happy about the backup directory that was there already
> (from the same machine). I had to delete this. It remains to be seen
> whether I will be able to backup again after this initial backup
> completes.

Weird. Please keep us posted about that. Also, your two additional problems with gvfs sound like bugs to me, or at least reasonable feature requests.