a few years later, i am still seeing this issue running as a normal (non-root) user w/most recent pkgs for 16.04.3LTS.
gvfs-backends was not installed automatically w/deja-dup pkg installed today (almost 10yr after this issue was opened). i located this ticket via this post, figured i'd let you know it's still out there. https://askubuntu.com/questions/459679/deja-dup-ssh-method-doesnt-work- writes-locally-instead -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/908791 Title: Backing up to ftp or sftp, creates "sftp:" or "ftp:" folder in Deja- Dup launch place To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/908791/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
