I’m trying to run my first DejaDup backup to an ext4 partition on an external hard drive. I created the partition using gparted. When I try to run the backup I get an error. See pic for error. https://imgur.com/a/bSmiDyj How to fix this? I’m a newbie so please provide the simplest fix that works.
The souce drive is LUKS encrypted. (my main system drive)
Details of the external backup destination partition:
It means the partition is mounted.
It’s mounted on the correct directory (/run/media).
But do noted that it’s temporary mounted and will be unmounted after you reboot. You have to edit /etc/fstab to auto-mount it.
Plug in some other USB stick and when it gets auto mounted check where that mounted path is.
On my system, I have an internal drive for Timeshift snapshots, it doesn’t automatically mount but when Timeshift makes a snapshot it mounts it to /run/timeshift/... this is the only drive that ever gets mounted to /run and I need elevated privileges to open it with a file manager.
Deja Dup doesn’t run with elevated privileges, Timeshift does.
All other drives, internal or external and including the drive I use for Deja Dup backups, get mounted to /media/username
As I mentioned in my other reply, I’m giving up on Fedora (what a nightmare!). Will try Ubuntu so this thread is resolved. Thanks for all your many replies! Appreciated.
