Understood. Agreed I dont have enough space. Deja Dup says it will delete
backups as needed, but it turns out this will only happen if 2 full backups
exist. I guess this is a catch 22 which leaves me with no future backups,
ever. In reality off course I just backup manually, but a shame Deja Dup is
rendered useless if you dont have space for 2 full backups.

Thanks for the feedback, it has been very helpful.

On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 02:55 Michael Terry, <email address hidden> wrote:

> It's invalid (closed) for MATE (not really MATE's issue), but not
> necessarily invalid for Deja Dup.
>
> Looks like you mostly have incremental backups there. Deja Dup will make
> a new full backup every 3 months. And incremental backups in between the
> full ones.
>
> It always wants two full backup chains (full + following incrementals)
> around, for safety. But any extra, it will delete as needed.
>
> You may just not have enough space on your drive for a full two chains?
>
> ** Changed in: deja-dup
>        Status: New => Incomplete
>
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>
> Title:
>   deja-dup backup fails with disk full
>
> Status in Déjà Dup:
>   Incomplete
> Status in Ubuntu MATE:
>   Invalid
>
> Bug description:
>   Ubuntu MATE 18.04.2. I use the built in Backup utility to perform a
>   backup of specific folders weekly, and have set to keep for at least 6
>   months (only 6 months, 1 year or forever are available).
>
>   Latest backup failed with a low disk space error.
>
>   The scheduling page of the gui states that "old backups will be
>   deleted earlier if the storage location is low on space".
>
>   I have checked status using the command line:
>
>   duplicity collection-status file:///media/backup/dejadup/
>
>   Which returns:
>
>   Last full backup date: Fri Jan 11 20:43:45 2019
>   Collection Status
>   -----------------
>   Connecting with backend: BackendWrapper
>   Archive directory:
> /home/morpheus/.cache/duplicity/2f3a21168822cf5d92412c2c772aee6e
>
>   Found 0 secondary backup chains.
>
>   Found primary backup chain with matching signature chain:
>   -------------------------
>   Chain start time: Fri Jan 11 20:43:45 2019
>   Chain end time: Sat Apr  6 20:46:12 2019
>   Number of contained backup sets: 16
>   Total number of contained volumes: 7416
>    Type of backup set:                            Time:   Number of
> volumes:
>                   Full         Fri Jan 11 20:43:45 2019                 8
>            Incremental         Tue Jan 29 21:23:54 2019              7070
>            Incremental         Thu Jan 31 01:18:47 2019                 1
>            Incremental         Sat Feb  9 11:57:00 2019                 1
>            Incremental         Sun Feb 10 15:28:16 2019               243
>            Incremental         Fri Feb 15 09:49:10 2019                19
>            Incremental         Sun Feb 17 19:32:30 2019                 1
>            Incremental         Mon Feb 18 20:37:11 2019                 1
>            Incremental         Wed Feb 20 19:26:26 2019                 1
>            Incremental         Thu Feb 21 19:30:58 2019                 1
>            Incremental         Thu Feb 28 20:55:10 2019                59
>            Incremental         Thu Mar  7 19:13:06 2019                 7
>            Incremental         Sat Mar 16 17:04:53 2019                 1
>            Incremental         Sat Mar 23 15:35:16 2019                 1
>            Incremental         Thu Mar 28 18:26:59 2019                 1
>            Incremental         Sat Apr  6 20:46:12 2019                 1
>   -------------------------
>   No orphaned or incomplete backup sets found.
>
>   My bug report is that Backups are no longer working, old backups are
>   not deleted when the storage location is low on space.
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