DD in KDE mangles the backup location

[Michael Terry]

First the details:
OS: Kubuntu 11.4
Deja Dup Version: 18.1.1
Installation: KPackageKit

Installation went smoothly. First test (manual backup) appeared to go smoothly, but never uploaded to ssh server; it stored files locally.

Setup was for ssh, 192.186.2.217, directory /home3/officebu, username officebu, including the following:

Home Folder

and ignoring the following:

Trash
Downloads
Restore
.kde/share/apps/kmail

Backup was set to be encrypted using a fairly strong password.

But files were never uploaded to the backup server; they were stored locally, on the machine I'm trying to backup:

In this directory path:

/home/USERNAME/Documents/sftp:/officebu@192.168.2.217/home3/officebu where USERNAME is my username on my local system (the one I'm trying to back up).

Then I tried to run it again, this time specifying port 22, and only backing up the Documents directory and not excluding anything.

But it ignored those settings, and created the same backup as previously but of course it also backed up the previous backup. This time the path was:

/home/USERNAME/Documents/sftp:/officebu@192.168.2.217:22

I've tried running preferences from the kubuntu menu and changing to the new preferences. There's no button to save everything, only a nonworking help button (returns: Could not display ghelp:deja-dup#prefs, probably nonworking because I'm using KDE rather than Gnome), and a Close button, which I use to close the window and hopefully save the settings. But when I start preferences again, nothing is saved.

Same thing which I click on Preferences from the deja-dup preferences option on the main screen.

Will the project even work under KDE? (A review in Linux Pro magazine said it would) Any ideas what's wrong?

[Schigh Schagh (supernic2002)]

This problem is not limited to KDE.