Comment 41 for bug 1217959

This has never happened to me before 1-January-2015. I run a weekly backup. Today, Deja told me it was doing a complete backup to prevent database corruption and that it would take longer than usual.

I do not have a power saving mode in use on this desktop 'puter. If I go away from it, I turn the computer's monitor off manually. There is no sleep or hibernate configged for this system. Except at cold boot time. If the password isn't entered before a set time, the password log-in screen/page shown on the monitor goes black and the mouse or keyboard key must be moved to bring the power back to the screen. I'ld turn that off too, if I knew how to.

Deja-Dup gets called every Thursday per it's config. After the external backup hard disk drive is powered up, Deja come up, asks for a password then runs/makes a backup. To shut down, from a terminal I always do: sync;sync;sync; - wait for the command line prompt to re-appear, then from the panel icon, I "unmount". This is invariably how I operate Deja-Dup.

Today, I did turn the monitor off while the deja-dup was running. I cannot see how that could cause this problem. Looking at the files made by deja-dup, which are stored on an external sata2 drive, I can find some file dates for today 1-January-2015. That is all I know.