No way to get the progress window back once closed

[Jan Vlug]

Sometimes, it happens that deja-dup is doing a backup, but I do not see a backup progress windows. However de "Back Up Now..." is greyed out. This is really confusing, because there is no visible backup that there is a backup running.
I have to use top to see that there actually is a back up going on.

Please provide always a progress window when backing up.

I use deja-dup on Fedora, GNOME desktop, fully up to date.

I do the back up to an external HDD encrypted disk, so it takes a while before the disk is mounted (because I have to provide the disk encryption password). Maybe this is related to the reason that I do not have a progress window.

[Jan Vlug (jan-vlug)]

I'm using Gnome on Wayland on Fedora 26. I noticed now that there was a small indication of a notification at the top of the Gnome desktop. When clicking on the "little ball" representing the notification I saw a message like: Deja-dup started automatic backup (I do not have the exact text because clicking on the notification made it go away). When I clicked on the notification the Backup progress window appeared.

[Jan Vlug (jan-vlug)]

However, still when you close the progress window, I see now way on how to make it appear again while a backup is already running.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Yes, I think you're right that the progress window can't come back once you close it... That's not great.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

I believe the following patch in master should fix this, by raising the progress window (if it exists) when opening deja-dup.

https://git.launchpad.net/deja-dup/commit/?id=4f705fec674b374d1dbf6669b935883515387fa6