To create a new full backup, simply backup to a new location, or move the files in the current location to some other place. Déjà Dup will detect the absence of previous backups and start a new full backup.
The backup location is the directory that stores the duplicity files that Déjà Dup produces (compressed and possibly encrypted duplicity-<full|inc>.<timestamp>.<volumenumber>.<extensions> files). For instance ftp://user@server:port/path/to/backup/location. You may also want to run the incremental backup that fails, from the command line, with verbose output, to try and understand what leads to that failure, and help triage this bug, because right now we unfortunately don't know enough to reproduce or fix it: $ DEJA_DUP_DEBUG=1 deja-dup --backup As Aaron said Déjà Dup is a good balance between ease of use and reliability. Since it is a front-end to duplicity, I would recommend using duplicity directly for more reliability (see manpage for usage). You would then avoid all the potential front-end bugs. -- 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/1651396 Title: Backup fails every time after one incremental file is possibly corrupted Status in deja-dup package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The backup location is on a NAS mounted with NFS. I get this message every time I try to make a new backup: Backup Failed Invalid data - SHA1 hash mismatch for file: duplicity-inc.20161219T001458Z.to.20161220T001456Z.vol1.difftar.gpg Calculated hash: 3dde403f81e36268ce9b7f53478d9dd8301a439c Manifest hash: b46782fb799c7c5a543ac88d9bfb7cc1df25d38c Can someone recommend a better backup software for personal use? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: deja-dup 34.2-0ubuntu1.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-53.74-generic 4.4.30 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-53-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Tue Dec 20 12:36:15 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-16 (949 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417) SourcePackage: deja-dup UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-08-02 (139 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/deja-dup/+bug/1651396/+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
