Why can Déjà Dup not complete the backup of .cache/dconf and .gvfs?

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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, 2022

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  • wjandrea
    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?

  • Admin
    Admin over 10 years
    Are 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)
  • Admin
    Admin over 10 years
    Your 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.
  • Admin
    Admin almost 10 years
    I 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/…
  • Admin
    Admin over 9 years
    For the purposes of answering the question, these should be ignored within deja-dup, rather than chown'd/chgrp'd
  • Admin
    Admin over 7 years
    I 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.
  • Admin
    Admin about 6 years
    Why should dconf be ignored by the backup rather than included?
  • Admin
    Admin over 5 years
    isnt this a security issue? theres probably a reason you werent originally the owner/group for those files...