I'm having a similar problem and unable to find a solution so far. I'm running an Ubuntu 18.04 derivative - Peppermint 10 Respin. I damaged my partition and had to install the system again and was able to restore many of my settings and all my files. The problem is that when I installed the system fresh I changed the computer name.
When Déjà-Dup is supposed to run it fails with the error message about the computer name change. I can run it by clicking on "Forward" but would like to have it running on it's own. Two problems I have with Déjà-Dup. I can't find a way around the computer name change problem and I would like to be able to set a specific time for the backup to occur. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to deja-dup in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1268182 Title: Computer name changed Status in Déjà Dup: Confirmed Status in deja-dup package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I am/was using Deja-Dup (version 26.0) on Fedora 19, I modified my router settings to use openDNS instead of my ISP's DNS. Then the next time I ran Deja-dup I had the message:- The existing backup is of a computer named advancedsearch.virginmedia.com, but the current computer's name is Zotac-Zbox-ID82. If this is unexpected, you should backup to a different location. Since I wasn't asked to specify a computer name, and the underlying "duplicity" (version: 0.6.22) would appear to get the machine name from the wrong file, I understand that the computer name is kept in two files (a bad practice in my mind). So can the interface be changed to show and or allow one to specify what hostname is used? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1268182/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
