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Hi all,

My first post here. I have quite a few issues to sort with Linux distros & my pc which I will deal with in other posts if needed.

My issue at the moment is with backing up my fresh, clean install of Mageia Gnome3. I am used to using Deja-Dup which has always worked on Gnome2 & xcfe distros but my 1st try here it told me that it failed to back up folder .dbus and on test restore failed to restore Desktop folder.

I have checked & there is indeed a locked folder on my Home partition which is root.

Any ideas as to getting a working backup?

Thanks

Uzi.

uzi wrote:I have checked & there is indeed a locked folder on my Home partition which is root.

Which folder would that be? Can you please show the output of

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ls -al /home/yourusername

Hi,

First of all, I did another clean install. The Home folder did not contain the folder .dbus but it appeared after doing a full update.

This is what I get from the Terminal:



Note the .dbus that Deja Dup says cannot backup and the .desktop that it cannot restore.

Uzi.

Copy&paste as text would be better

Well, the .desktop file contains your default desktop and is written by the login manager, which is running as root.
Permissions are the same here. For the .dbus directory issue is that you don't even have read permissions as your user.

You can either change the ownership of .desktop file and .dbus directory to your user, or run dejadup as root,

doktor5000 wrote:Copy&paste as text would be better

Well, the .desktop file contains your default desktop and is written by the login manager, which is running as root.
Permissions are the same here. For the .dbus directory issue is that you don't even have read permissions as your user.

You can either change the ownership of .desktop file and .dbus directory to your user, or run dejadup as root,

Nice way to welcome a new member & his 1st post. I did as you asked but then you criticise the way I did it

As for you answer, well state the obvious. What I asked was WHY Mageia does this when all the other distros do not & whether it was safe to use as a backup.

The result of your less than friendly reply was I tested Sabayon Gnome 3 & it works great AND DEJA DUP WORKS TOO

Sorry Mageia but Sabayon won out.

Bye

uzi wrote:The result of your less than friendly reply was I tested Sabayon Gnome 3 & it works great AND DEJA DUP WORKS TOO

Sorry Mageia but Sabayon won out.

Use what works best for you. Ciao.