Hello all! I’ve just released Déjà Dup 49.alpha with some big features, and I’d love any testing that folks can manage.
New: UI Refactor
Progress dialogs are gone, replace by inline banners. The preference dialog has also been moved inline.
The two-tab interface has also changed to use nesting navigation pages.
Hopefully this is more intuitive and allows more natural interaction with the main window (e.g. you can now minimize or close it during backups).
See this previous forum post for more information on this.
New: Restoring directly through the file manager (Restic only)
When restoring from a Restic repository, we now launch a file manager looking into a FUSE view of your backup. This means you can directly copy and paste or drag files to restore them, see more metadata about files, and have a richer browsing interface.
See this previous forum post for more information on this.
New: Tweaked automatic backup scheduling
Previously, automatic backups were triggered off of pre-calculated windows, irrespective of when the last backup actually happened. Now, if you have weekly backups, and you make a manual backup, the next automatic backup will happen seven days later. This hopefully matches user expectations more.
When testing, be on the lookout for any scheduling oddities.
Testing instructions
- Remove your existing install, to avoid any confusion.
flatpak uninstall org.gnome.DejaDup
- Add the flathub beta repository.
flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub-beta https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo
- Install 49.alpha from Flathub.
flatpak install --or-update flathub-beta org.gnome.DejaDup
- And now you should see
Backupsin your applications list.
All testing is welcome, and reports of either success or failure would be delightful. Either here, or in a gitlab issue.
Thanks for reading!
