"could not back up files" dialog never shown; breaks scheduled backups

[Siddu]

On the conclusion of a backup, if any nonreadable files exist in the backup source directories, Deja Dup shows a notification at the bottom of my screen telling me that the backup completed but not all files were able to be backed up; "see dialog for details". However, this dialog never appears. As a result, the "deja-dup --backup --auto" process never terminates, as it's waiting for me to close a dialog that never appeared in the first place.

This effectively breaks the automatic, "set-and-forget" backup strategy, as deja-dup-monitor will not launch another scheduled backup until the deja-dup process exits, which will never happen.

This only happens when deja-dup is launched with "deja-dup --backup --auto"; launching with "deja-dup --backup" (no auto) does show the dialog at the end of the process, allowing me to close it and properly terminate the backup.

~$ lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu Saucy Salamander (development branch)

~$ dpkg-query -W deja-dup duplicity
deja-dup 27.3.1-0ubuntu1
duplicity 0.6.21-0ubuntu4

[arst06d (david-arstall)]

Yes - also affects me running xubuntu 13:10.

I don't see a dialog - only way I know the backup has failed (or is still waiting to finish) is if I access the Deja-dup ui and the Backup Now button is greyed out. I then check Task Manager and see "deja-dup --backup --auto" is still alive. Kill that and all OK.

I don't know what file(s) it gets hung up on as I don't see a dialog.

This was also raised in Question #237446 but was never resolved as far as I can see.

[Matthew Haughton (snafu109)]

I have the exact same issue.

$ lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 13.10

$ dpkg-query -W deja-dup duplicity
deja-dup 27.3.1-0ubuntu1
duplicity 0.6.21-0ubuntu4.1

Running XFCE.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[palmerito0 (sandiegobutterflies)]

Bump. Affects me on Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa.

[simon place (psiplace)]

same here. ubuntu mate 15.10

waste of time.

i even had to check system monitor to find out this was called "Déjà Dup" to be able to report this bug, but 3 years down the line still being put in new systems, probably this is just more waste of my time.

[TheOldFellow (theoldfellow)]

Does anyone know of a backup program that works? This one never terminates and doesn't report errors to alog like any, and I mean ANY, sensible, properly programmed program.

From this raised in 2008, and still unaddressed in 2016, 8 YEARS later, it isn't actually maintained either.

[Vej (vej)]

Hello everyone affected. Is this still related to an option called "--auto" as described by the original author?

I could not find such an option in a recent version of Déjà Dup.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

--auto is how we launch the background backups.

I think this bug has been fixed in recent releases by a more concerted effort to keep the progress windows on top of the rest of the interface. But if folks can still reproduce using a recent Deja Dup (40+ I’d say), please reopen and I can try to reproduce.