Comment 3 for bug 700570

I am proposing a storage option with manual control over the duplicty backend options.

Here is my use case: I am doing backups via sftp on my notebook. The gvfs mounting regularly blocks Gnome upon suspend or resume until I kill the underlying sftp process from a tty. I was looking into automatic unmounting, but there is no good option for that (bug #780986). Since I still want to use deja-dup as a frontend, my workaround is to ignore the --gio option in duplicity, which then uses the paramiko library to make sftp connections directly.

Having an "advanced/manual duplicity backend" option would also address the request for rsync in bug #781281.