Comment 3 for bug 1906304

I also uninstalled the vanilla version of deja-dup that came with 18.04 and
installed the snap with the latest. Will see in a few days whether anything
is different.

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 5:00 PM Michael Terry <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Oh that’s interesting yes. I’ll have to see how to get the quota info
> from gvfs and apply it to our calculations. Thank you for the report!
>
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> Title:
> Deja Dup should delete old backups to make room for new backups and it
> doesn't
>
> Status in deja-dup package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Backups are being stored using and external usb drive with the zfs
> filesystem. There is a quota set on the backup partition. When deja-
> dup fills the partition to it's quota it simply stops backing up
> instead of deleting the oldest backups to make room for new backups.
> Setting the quota higher will allow deja-dup to continue, but the this
> is not a desired behavior, after all, what are quotas for but to limit
> disk usage.
>
> Deja-dup does not seem to recognize a zfs quota limit as a full disk.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
> Package: deja-dup 37.1-2fakesync1ubuntu0.1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-54.60~18.04.1-generic 5.4.65
> Uname: Linux 5.4.0-54-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
> ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.20
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
> Date: Mon Nov 30 14:40:16 2020
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-01-09 (326 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64
> (20190805)
> SourcePackage: deja-dup
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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