Hi Terry, > I realised that this could well be the problem that I've been > experiencing for some time, with certain news sites slowing the browser > to a stop and eventually forcing a restart.
If your machine is running out of RAM plus swap, yes. > I'll simply shrink the adjacent partition and increase the swap. > However, the swap partition is on my /home partition If it's a swap file, it could be within the /home /partition, but then you'd be enlarging /home so the swap file could be bigger. > smb://TerryJColes@readynas/TerryJColes/Backups/Optiplex/Duplicity/OptiPlex/ Okay, https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/deja-dup/-/wikis/Manual-Restore says there can be two forms of Deja Dup backups: the old Duplicity, and the new Restic; looks like you may have the old, though it's worth checking what's there matches that web page's description. > Unfortunately, the setup interface in DejaDup Backup has changed and > I cannot get it to see the files that I know are there. This has > always been a bit fiddly and I previously had to enter the above path > in two parts to make it work, but no combination of pathnames appears > to work now. > > Can anyone suggest how I can define the correct path These may help having skimmed them. Read them through. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1387485/restore-from-deja-dup-backup-on-samba-share-a-synology-nas https://answers.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+question/700551 In general, I've found Deja Dup's documentation to be scant. I wouldn't use it. Perhaps it was better in the past. -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2026-10-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... https://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:[email protected]
