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[Mike <850866@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mike. Thanks for the thorough reply. I guess I thought I could use
Deja-Dup like TimeMachine in that I could just reinstall the base OS and
point it to the backup location and say "GO!". I'm not clear on why you
are suggesting that this isn't practical for this use-case, but I'll
take your advice and make a manual full backup before attempting the
fresh install. Yes, I must have missed the notification about backup
being complete. I think informing the user of the state of the backup is
kinda important to build confidence in the product. Just my $0.02.

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Title:
  deja-dup offers no indication of success

Status in Déjà Dup Backup Tool:
  New
Status in “deja-dup” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Testing Oneiric alpha on an upgrade from Natty and am trying to
  configure Deja-Dup. It /appears/ to be working, but I have zero
  confidence that it has ever successfully performed a backup because
  the interface seems very buggy.

  In the screenshot backupInTaskbarAfterAutostart.png I am showing that
  Deja-dup has automatically started running shortly after turning on my
  laptop. The icon appears, but when I click the icon to bring focus to
  the desktop the application seems to silently crash because the icon
  simply disappears.

  But what I view as a larger problem is that when I then manually
  launch Deja-Dup it reports that a "Most recent backup" was performed 7
  days ago and the "Next automatic backup" is scheduled for "Today". The
  problem is that I have no confidence that the 7-day old backup was
  actually completed successfully because I recall it stopping short
  again because I attempted to interact with the program after it had
  auto-started, just like I described above. From a user-perspective I
  am not aware of a method to look and assure myself that any full
  backup was EVER completed "Successfully", which is extremely important
  to me since I plan to do a fresh reinstall of Oneiric once I know I
  have all my info protected. I can't seem to locate a logfile either,
  but in my opinion a user shouldn't have to go digging around in
  /var/log to determine if the backup solution is healthy or not.

  This may fall under a separate bug report but the button Backup Now is
  grayed out and does not allow me to initiate a backup (see screenshot
  buttonsGrayedOut.png). Maybe that's because the scheduled backup is
  actually already running? A casual user has no way to know.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: deja-dup 19.91-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Sep 15 06:51:53 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64+mac (20110312)
  SourcePackage: deja-dup
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-03 (12 days ago)

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