Why can Déjà Dup not complete the backup of .cache/dconf and .gvfs?
I've been able to solve my question after finding this web page. You need to update the owner and group for each file which is failing to backup. I used these commands to solve the situation.
sudo chown mjwittering .cache/dconf .gvfs
sudo chgrp mjwittering .cache/dconf .gvfs
Then run the backup again, which should now complete successfully.
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Updated on November 25, 2022Comments
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wjandrea over 1 year
I'm 24hrs into using Déjà Dup. All seems well apart from this error message:
Backup Finished
Could not back up the following files. Please make sure you are able to open them.
/home/mjwittering/.cache/dconf
/home/mjwittering/.gvfs
What should I do, if anything?
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Admin over 10 yearsAre you sure you want to back up the contents of the .gvfs directory? That's just a mountpoint for user-mounted filesystems (e.g. when you browse to a network share via nautilus) - typically those files would be backed up on the remote system where they actually reside - backing them up locally may cause a lot of unnecessary network traffic (and local disk usage)
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Admin over 10 yearsYour right, I probably don't need to backup the contents of both paths, and could extend the default ignore list in Déjà Dup. I'm actually backing up to an external disk and haven't mounted any network shares to my system, so should have any problems, but that is quite an interesting unexpected consequence. Thanks for the advice.
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Admin almost 10 yearsI too, had this problem. Just that on my system it was ~/.cache/dconf + ~/.dbus instead. The directories should not be owned by root so absolutely, do change it. This was discussed on ubuntu-devel-discuss and here is a reply that confirms this, lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2014-April/…
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Admin over 9 yearsFor the purposes of answering the question, these should be ignored within deja-dup, rather than chown'd/chgrp'd
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Admin over 7 yearsI tried ignoring ~/.dbus and still got the error. It's mostly a minor, but daily annoyance: instead of running silently in the background, every time I backup, Deja-Dup wiggles in the Launcher, waiting for me to "OK" and close the error message. So, chown and chgrp are a welcome solution--it will save seconds of my day every day for a long time.
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Admin about 6 yearsWhy should dconf be ignored by the backup rather than included?
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Admin over 5 yearsisnt this a security issue? theres probably a reason you werent originally the owner/group for those files...