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[Bachi <1016012@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well if Deja Dup is Ubuntu's general / packaged backup solution and  it
can not backup system files, then Ubuntu is by default not able to to
proper system backups, only user data backups. Which is a really big
limitation.

I would strongly recommend to add the ability to backup vital system
folders like /etc or /var (or those files in the user's home that are
owned by root). Without, Ubuntu users are way behind other OS'
capabilities in terms of system backups (of course one can solve this by
a manually set up backup - but what's then the point in having a bundled
backup solution?)

As for security, you could make backing up root files an option, which
requires an encryption password to be set.

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Title:
  Backup (Déjà Dup) needs to run with root permissions in Precise

Status in deja-dup package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Backup with Déjà Dup fails on numerous files due to r/w permissions
  for root only (600). It appears that starting with Precise (12.04)
  many systm files have changed permissions from earlier releases.
  Backup is no longer effective unless run with root permissions.

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