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Special Forums UNIX and Linux Applications Deja-dup make my / full. So I cannot restore my back up Post 303010049 by puertas12 on Monday 25th of December 2017 06:59:31 AM
Old 12-25-2017
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Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Settings for Déjà Dup are stored in dconf - you use dconf-edit to change or view it.
I executed in the shell "dconf-config" and ended in this root menu:
  • apps
  • desktop
  • org
  • system
Then I checked the sub-folders but I did not find configuration of "deja-dup".



Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
I assume you are on ubuntu.
Luke, I am your father. I am on Debian 9

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Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
If you run the program as root, it will store all it work on the root / directory as you found out.
This sounds interesting. Does it mean if I execute deja-dup-preferences with another user the cache of the root user wont be used?

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Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
You may want to create a user that has a different home directory, and allow advanced permissions for that user.
This can be a solution but I shoud create a new partition to host the new home, right?
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