Public bug reported: Testing Oneiric alpha on an upgrade from Natty and am trying to configure Deja-Dup. It /appears/ to be working, but I have zero confidence that it has ever successfully performed a backup because the interface seems very buggy.
In the screenshot backupInTaskbarAfterAutostart.png I am showing that Deja-dup has automatically started running shortly after turning on my laptop. The icon appears, but when I click the icon to bring focus to the desktop the application seems to silently crash because the icon simply disappears. But what I view as a larger problem is that when I then manually launch Deja-Dup it reports that a "Most recent backup" was performed 7 days ago and the "Next automatic backup" is scheduled for "Today". The problem is that I have no confidence that the 7-day old backup was actually completed successfully because I recall it stopping short again because I attempted to interact with the program after it had auto-started, just like I described above. From a user-perspective I am not aware of a method to look and assure myself that any full backup was EVER completed "Successfully", which is extremely important to me since I plan to do a fresh reinstall of Oneiric once I know I have all my info protected. I can't seem to locate a logfile either, but in my opinion a user shouldn't have to go digging around in /var/log to determine if the backup solution is healthy or not. This may fall under a separate bug report but the button Backup Now is grayed out and does not allow me to initiate a backup (see screenshot buttonsGrayedOut.png). Maybe that's because the scheduled backup is actually already running? A casual user has no way to know. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: deja-dup 19.91-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Sep 15 06:51:53 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64+mac (20110312) SourcePackage: deja-dup UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-03 (12 days ago) ** Affects: deja-dup (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric running-unity -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/850866 Title: deja-dup offers no indication of success To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/deja-dup/+bug/850866/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs