Time for backup always reverts to "never"

Bug #69767 reported by Christopher Barrington-Leigh
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
sbackup (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Oumar Aziz OUATTARA

Bug Description

Binary package hint: sbackup

New Edgy install with:
  Installed: 0.10.3

I edit the "when" to say daily at a given time. I Save. Save is confirmed. Nothing happens. I rerun the simple-backup-config to find that it says "never" again. This is repeatable.

(boy, do I ever have troubles getting Ubuntu's main (?) backup software working smoothly!)

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Aigars Mahinovs (aigarius) wrote :

Confirmed. Apparently not many people used edgy before its release, so some strange bugs remained.

I will look into that.

To make it work, as a workaround, create a file /etc/cron.d/sbackup containing:
0 4 * * * root if [ -x /usr/sbin/sbackupd ]; then /usr/sbin/sbackupd; fi;

Changed in sbackup:
assignee: nobody → aigarius
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Harry (hpapaxen) wrote :

I have the same problem

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Aigars Mahinovs (aigarius) wrote :

The essence of the bug is that when you switch from "manual backups only" to "custom backup settings" on the first page, the top selector on the "Time" page remains in the "never" position.
If you go to the time page and select some backup frequency (daily backups at 4:00 are recommended for always-on PCs), then it will be saved.

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Oumar Aziz OUATTARA (wattazoum) wrote :

Fixed Upstream . Now , when you select a time (!= never) the radio button is toggled automatically to "custom backup settings". If you toggle it back to 'manual backup only' the time is set to "Never"

Changed in sbackup:
assignee: aigarius → wattazoum
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in sbackup:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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