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Ger
Asked: 2012-10-31 00:54:55 +0800 CST

Lubuntu and backup software?

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I use unity and I appreciate the backup facilities incorporate since 12.04 (deja dup).

Is it possible to use it with Lubuntu ? One of the advantages of the integration of deja dup in unity is the possiblity to recover a file by a right clic in a directory where that file was located. Is it possible to do that in lubuntu ?

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  1. There is no reason not to continue using deja dup as your backup manager.

    It is fully supported through 13.04 as I use it currently in Lubuntu, version 25.3-Ounbunu1.

    You can install this using the Software Center, Synaptic or CLI in terminal.

    sudo apt-get install deja-dup

    enter image description here

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  2. Best Answer

    To get the same file manager integration, you must install and use nautilus, the GNOME file manager.

    Alternatively, you could do something like the following in a terminal: deja-dup --restore /path/to/file

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  3. @Ger Answering my interpretation of your question (which is identical with the question I had 5 five minutes ago): Deja Dup becomes accessible (launch-able) through the menu items Accessories -> Backups and Preferences -> Backups. That's my experience in Lubuntu 16.04.2, anyway. I noticed neither until after logging out and logging back in. Since I made some effort to find an appropriate menu item, I'm happy to conclude they were not there until after my new log in. (Rather than log out, there's very probably something less disruptive you can do, such as restarting the window manager, to attain the same goal.)

    The initial state of the Deja Dup window was not a good match with Ringtail's screen shot.

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