Deja Dup`s "Back Up Now" button is not highlighted

Question

I have setup my backup folder and put the Automatic backups switch to on. In the Overview tab I cant press the "Back Up Now" because it is grayed out.

I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and here is the content of ~/.gconf/apps/deja-dup/%gconf.xml :

$ cat  ~/.gconf/apps/deja-dup/%gconf.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
<entry name="delete-after" mtime="1328975617" type="int" value="7"/>
<entry name="periodic-period" mtime="1328975577" type="int" value="1"/>
<entry name="exclude-list" mtime="1328975572" type="list" ltype="string">
    <li type="string">
        <stringvalue>/home/r2d2/.local/share/Trash</stringvalue>
    </li>
</entry>
<entry name="periodic" mtime="1328988637" type="bool" value="true"/>
<entry name="backend" mtime="1328975520" type="string">
    <stringvalue>file</stringvalue>
</entry>
</gconf>

score 25 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 25 '19 at 21:44

25

Shorter version

Ctrl+Alt+t to open a terminal

pkill deja-dup

Re-run the "Backups" program and try again.

answered Mar 25 '19 at 21:44

Tim Abell

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score 18 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 23 '15 at 19:31

18

In my case, there was no backup running but deja-dup had a couple of things running.

I did a ps -eaf | grep dup and killed the pids. Then I started DejaDup from the menu and the button was active.

edited Aug 23 '15 at 19:31

Eric Carvalho

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answered Dec 07 '12 at 12:08

Indigo42

181

score 8 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 17 '12 at 14:34

8

That button is grayed out when a backup (or restore) is already in progress. Maybe one was running in the background?

Is the button enabled now?

answered Mar 17 '12 at 14:34

Michael Terry

3,725

score 8 · Answer 4 · edited Aug 23 '15 at 19:32

8

ps aux | grep deja
kill <pid of "deja-dup --backup --auto">

Immediately the backup button becomes active.

This should be reported as a bug as the frontend should either have a button to terminate running backups or automatically reconcile concurrent backups.

edited Aug 23 '15 at 19:32

Eric Carvalho

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answered Aug 23 '15 at 18:48

MrRobot

81

score 6 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 02 '12 at 09:14

My 'back up now' button was disabled. In my case the problem was that when I opened the Deja Dup config, the 'storage' option was set to 'Ubuntu One', and it opened another window for logging into that.

I changed the storage setting to a local drive, but it took me a while to realise I had to cancel the Ubuntu One login before Deja Dup would allow me to run a backup.

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 24 '19 at 11:16

0

It might also be that you don't have to kill the process, because it is already doing what you want it to do in the background. I just opened the destination folder and I'm seeing that lots of backup files are being created.

answered Sep 24 '19 at 11:16

Papa Stahl

1

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jul 17 '15 at 17:14

I ended the process found in the system monitor and the buttons immediately 'ungreyed'. They way I got into the problem was canceling a backup to postpone figuring out a password for it. I had shut down the machine several times since then but it was still stuck there I guess.

Deja Dup`s "Back Up Now" button is not highlighted

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