Deja Dup and Ubuntu One backup problem

[Tommy Trussell]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am using Deja Dup to backup onto Ubuntu One server from Ubuntu
> 12.04.  This has all been going well until now.  I see from logging
> into ubuntu one that I have used up all my allocated space and when I
> run the backup I get a backup failed with status code 502, and if I
> run deja dup with debug enabled I see that there is an error
> Backend Exception: Upload will exceed quota.
>
> I thought that it was supposed to remove old backups if necessary to
> make space but it does not seem to be doing this.
>
> Google has not provided any help.  Any suggestions anyone?
>
> Colin
>
>
 I haven't tried Deja Dup in awhile, but I remembered I had seen
documentation for it. I went to a terminal and typed

$ man deja-dup

It had a small amount of information, plus a note to SEE ALSO duplicity(1).

$ man duplicity

AH there's some more relevant information... including a note saying the
remove-older-than command will "Delete  all  backup  sets older than the
given time.  Old backup sets will not be deleted if backup sets newer than
 time  depend on  them."

SO it's possible that your oldest backup sets are logically linked to the
newer ones. It's also possible there are some "stuck" partial backups in
your collection. You might be able to use the duplicity commands for
getting your collection-status, and find that your backups are all
incremental or maybe some backups failed and you didn't see the failure
message.

Of course, all this assumes the duplicity and deja-dup backups are
compatible with each other, which I do not know.
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