I'm 24hrs into using Déjà Dup. All seems well apart from this error message:
Backup Finished
Could not back up the following files. Please make sure you are able to open them.
/home/mjwittering/.cache/dconf
/home/mjwittering/.gvfs
What should I do, if anything?
I've been able to solve my question after finding this web page. You need to update the owner and group for each file which is failing to backup. I used these commands to solve the situation.
sudo chown mjwittering .cache/dconf .gvfs
sudo chgrp mjwittering .cache/dconf .gvfs
Then run the backup again, which should now complete successfully.
Regardless of what's causing the problem, these directories should be excluded from a backup. For details, see What files and directories can be excluded from a backup of the home directory?
Seen in a 12.04 system that ~/.gvfs is owned by me:me and permissions are dr-x------.
So once you granted ownership to user yourself and group yourself run:
chmod 500 ~/.gvfs
No comment to add about .cache/dconf
