Where does deja-dup log its errors?

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I configured Deja-dup to make a daily backup of my whole data drive. Now I get an error message each time, telling me, that not all files could be backuped. But i cannot find any Deja-dup logs in /var/log nor in the syslog. Where does it display the missing files?

Did you check /tmp/deja-dup.log? – devav2 Sep 19 '12 at 08:05 — devav2, Sep 19 '12 at 08:05
I could not find a file there – Raffael Sep 19 '12 at 10:10 — Raffael, Sep 19 '12 at 10:10

score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 20 '12 at 16:02

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It seems that it doesn't really save them anywhere, but if you run it with the environment variable DEJA_DUP_DEBUG=1 you can get all the information that way.

Source: https://answers.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+question/125731

answered Sep 20 '12 at 16:02

Chris Wayne

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Now that is some verbose output. The log file has >500MB for one run of deja dup. My solution is now to run the command manually again and check the gui output. – Raffael Sep 24 '12 at 09:36
DEJA_DUP_DEBUG=1 deja-dup seems to work to get output to console (it should be possible to redirect it wherever desired), thank You, but I think it's worth mentioning, that the application should de closed before running it. killall deja-dup should help (maybe also killall deja-dup-monitor could be required). – kcpr Aug 26 '21 at 07:21

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 10 '17 at 00:40

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In Deja-Dup on Ubuntu 16.04 (default Backup app installation), there are limited log files in ~/.cache/deja-dup/. It looks like only fairly basic information is stored by default.

answered Jan 10 '17 at 00:40

Jaydin

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 15 '24 at 15:28

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In Deja Dup on Ubuntu 22.04 under "About Backups" menu there's the "Troubleshooting option". There you can see a brief debugging information log.

answered Sep 15 '24 at 15:28

Ventolinmono

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Where does deja-dup log its errors?

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