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I have now made changes to the warning about symbolic links pointing to stuff that will not be saved. You will get less warnings like this in the next version of kup. - Jun 11 2019

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It does seem to me that it was fixed in version 0.29 of bup. Which version of bup are you using? - Sep 19 2017

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Hope this helps. - Feb 15 2017

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Because of your comments I had a look again at the build service and found that now it does actually produce .deb files for ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10. So, please try installing a deb from here:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/simper:/kup/xUbuntu_16.10/amd64/kup_0.6.1-1_amd64.deb
Those files there used to be linked automatically from this page but now after moving from kde-apps.com to linux-apps.com it no longer works. I will try to provide a link in the description at least so that other people can find these software packages.
Thanks for not giving up! :) - Nov 08 2016

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If I remember correctly the kcm modules will not be found if installed to /usr/local. I will update the README file with better instructions.... that you should run this instead:
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release .. - Nov 07 2016

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~ $ locate kcm_kup
/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kcm_kup.so
/usr/share/kservices5/kcm_kup.desktop
- Nov 05 2016

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cmake, extra-cmake-modules, libkf5coreaddons-dev, libkf5dbusaddons-dev, libkf5i18n-dev, libkf5iconthemes-dev, kio-dev, libkf5solid-dev, libkf5idletime-dev, libkf5windowsystem-dev, libkf5notifications-dev, libkf5config-dev, kinit-dev - Nov 04 2016

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Thanks for the kind words! - Jun 13 2016

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If you have any advice for how to correct it that would be good. My motivation for packaging is very low, looking back I can't really believe I managed to get these packages built, considering how time consuming, boring and frustrating it is.
- Oct 20 2015

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That said, you can use FUSE to mount a remote location and then just configure Kup to use a folder
inside the remote storage while it is mounted.
I have never used anything like this myself but there seem to be fuse implementations available for ftp, listed at wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace
Good luck! And please report back if there are any problems with getting this to work. - Jul 18 2015

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In the description I do try to point out this advantage, not sure if I get the point across.. I find it a bit difficult to explain. - Jul 05 2015

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You could have a point that this is worth pointing out explicitly. Thanks! - Jul 05 2015

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Yay! - Jun 18 2015

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You are still the only one who has reported this problem, so I will have to rely on your help to troubleshoot. Like I said earlier, there is an alternative that I have already tested (for me it works just as well as the currently shipped solution), but I would like to confirm that it fixes things for you before shipping it. Please contact me if you are willing to try.
Thanks! - Jun 11 2015

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There is a matching kcm_kup.desktop file that apparently is found at least, that's why you see the icon in system settings.
You should be able to list the files installed by your package. Find the "kcm_kup.so" file, see which directory it gets installed into. Then check your system to see if all the other kcm_*.so files (settings plugins that ship with plasma and such) are in that same folder.
Hope this helps! - Jun 01 2015

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For testing the ported bup kio I used gwenview as my filemanager... heheh.. it works! But you only get to see folders and image files in your backup. - Jun 01 2015

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If somebody wants to try building a deb, you can use the .dsc, .rules, .control and .changelog files that I made here:
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:simper:kup/kup-kf5
Perhaps that helps to get started with. And perhaps it's time Kubuntu included kup in it's repos... Kup has already been part of default installation of Chakra OS for a year now. - May 31 2015

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Then if it still doesn't work, check where debian/ubuntu install the kcm_*.so files (kup should install it's kcm_kup.so in the same directory as all the other ones....)
If it is wrong you maybe need to add this to cmake also:
-DKDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS=ON
I hate packaging. I spent more than three whole days trying to package 0.6.0 for opensuse, fedora, ubuntu and arch linux. Had to give up on ubuntu since the open build service does not allow dependencies on the "universe" repo in ubuntu.
So thank you for wanting to help! - May 24 2015

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Thanks for not giving up. - Mar 15 2015

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If it is about listing the file names of files that did not get included, it would be tricky to scan though the output from bup to find file names, would probably not always work, would stop working when a new version of bup changes how it outputs that error info, etc. And this would not even be much better than the log file that exist today, would it? - Feb 28 2015

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And yes, I am aware of this problem of small temporary files coming and going while taking a backup. Most of the times the user would not care if that file got included or not.
But it's difficult to make kup intelligent enough to say that "meh, the user probably didn't care about that file... let's continue backing up and report that everything went fine anyway"
And having hidden folders in the users home folder included by default seems like a good default to me, I think many users want to be able to restore settings for their applications.
So... I'm thining that perhaps the best option now is to have some more common cache folders excluded by default. If anybody has suggestions for common folders that should be excluded, let me know! - Feb 28 2015

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And then, you are having two separate problems?
One, sometimes you cannot see your external drive in the Kup configuration, under "external storage" destination option. Any idea here what can have changed from one time to the other?
Second, instead of "external storage" destination you configure /media/user/Backup under "filesystem" destination, but then it only works the first time after configuring (with the drive available), second time (unplugging and plugging the hard drive back in again) it does not find it to be available there.
Is the /medÃa/User/Backup a symbolic link or is it a folder?
Please correct me if I misunderstood something, or confirm that my understanding is correct..
Thanks! - Feb 07 2015

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I'm thinking that this is still a bit beyond the scope and intended user level for kup. If you want to avoid new files and folders getting included in your backup my suggestion is to uncheck your home folder and then select only the subfolders under your home folder that you want to include. Not a perfect solution, I know. Any files directly in your home folder would be excluded in this example.
I think that for most people storage is cheap enough to not worry so much about the exact files that gets backed up, can include some dead weight without any real problem. - Feb 02 2015

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Hope this helps! - Nov 26 2014

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But thanks for posting a working link! :) - Oct 26 2014

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I'm thinking of adding direct support for samba shares, just to make it simpler to setup.
- Jul 27 2014

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Thanks for the kind words. I added logfile function in may, will be in the next feature release... whenever that may happen.
https://github.com/spersson/Kup/commit/3cc45991977e58cdae7b98bc1640ca3e8b70a941
- Jul 27 2014

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http://chakraos.org/news/index.php?/archives/127-Chakra-2014.05-Descartes-released.html
woohoo! - May 22 2014