Mokrates : you can't, it's hardcoded. (no jokes !) Because of Déjà Dup, I also lost data 1 year ago, and created a bug report : https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1562357
But it's been completely ignored. My conclusion : "As deja-dup project seems more or less inactive, and can't be used as a reliable backup for steam users, I suggest everyone affected to use "Back in time". With this software : - backup settings can be changed - backup operation eats a lot less CPU, and is faster (for me) - data is easy to access, you don't even need the backup software" -- 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: Fix Released Status in deja-dup package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in deja-dup source package in Precise: Fix Released Status in deja-dup source package in Quantal: Fix Released 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
