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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote : Re: support system backups (request sudo/root permissions)

I agree this would be nice. But since Deja Dup's focus is really simple home backups, I'm marking this wishlist.

There are some technical challenges here too. Duplicity tells us when we can't read a file. But then we'd need to be able to go back with sudo and get them. And if we try to run duplicity under sudo, we can't use GIO. So maybe we'd need to move the files ourselves to a place that the user can read before backing them up...