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Since Ubuntu one is being dropped, I will have to make my system backup elsewhere.

I asume that in deja dup, in the storage tab, the backup location Ubuntu one, will no longer be available. My question is,What can i use in place of the Ubuntu One.

Dropbox or preferably Mega, or anything else that allows me to make a backup online?

Braiam
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blade19899
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Deja Dup is just a front-end (and configuration helper) for Duplicity. From its --help, you can see what it supports:

  cf+http://container_name
  file:///some_dir
  ftp://user[:password]@other.host[:port]/some_dir
  ftps://user[:password]@other.host[:port]/some_dir
  hsi://user[:password]@other.host[:port]/some_dir
  imap://user[:password]@other.host[:port]/some_dir
  rsync://user[:password]@other.host[:port]::/module/some_dir
  rsync://user[:password]@other.host[:port]/relative_path
  rsync://user[:password]@other.host[:port]//absolute_path
  s3://other.host/bucket_name[/prefix]
  s3+http://bucket_name[/prefix]
  scp://user[:password]@other.host[:port]/some_dir
  ssh://user[:password]@other.host[:port]/some_dir
  swift://container_name
  tahoe://alias/directory
  webdav://user[:password]@other.host/some_dir
  webdavs://user[:password]@other.host/some_dir
  gdocs://user[:password]@other.host/some_dir
  mega://user[:password]@other.host/some_dir
  dpbx:///some_dir

And as you can see, both Mega and Dropbox are both on the end of that list. I would expect most of those to be available through Deja Dup.

Note: This appears to be new in Trusty. So you would either need to upgrade (pre-release at the time of writing) or manually suck the duplicity package back from packages.ubuntu.com. If you do the second, just check you can fulfill all the dependencies from your Ubuntu version before you upgrade. If you can't and you install anyway, that can cause a bit of a headache.

Oli
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Another way using the graphical interface is to install Dropbox on your system, create a folder within the Dropbox folder. After doing those steps point the backup to it using the custom location choice. After the backup is complete the Dropbox client will automatically upload the backup to the cloud.

Ghostwalker
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