** Changed in: deja-dup Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to deja-dup in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1083237
Title: Ignore Steam files by default Status in Déjà Dup Backup Tool: Fix Released Status in “deja-dup” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “deja-dup” source package in Precise: New Status in “deja-dup” source package in Quantal: New Bug description: [Impact] Steam is coming to Ubuntu (already in beta). Steam games are enormous, synchronized, and off-site. No need to back them up. Once users start playing Steam games, a user that enabled backups with Deja Dup's default settings will find that all of a sudden, many gigs of data are being backed up. Now, obviously this is a bit of a whack-a-mole problem. Many apps like Steam don't properly follow the XDG basedir spec and put cached data in ~/.cache so that Deja Dup and similar apps will ignore them. And we don't want to SRU a fix for every single non-compliant app. But Steam is a big one. It's both very popular and its data is very very large. I think it's worth an exception to avoid the pain and bug reports that will come when many people suddenly add multiple gigs of useless data to their backups. [Workaround] A user can simply add ~/Steam to the backup ignore list. But every single user that uses Steam will want to do that. It's a big burden to ask of each user individually. [Test Case] Try backing up your home directory with Steam installed. Notice that it will include ~/Steam. With this patch (from upstream), it will ignore ~/Steam instead. [Regression Potential] It's a very simple fix. I think regression potential is exceedingly tiny. [Fix Details] We add ~/.steam/root to the hidden default ignore list. ~/.steam/root points at ~/Steam (which will also be ignored) unless the user has manually changed it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1083237/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp