Next, click on Storage location on the sidebar, and you'll be able to choose Amazon S3 as the storage location. Now launch Deja Dup (it may be shown as "Backups" in your applications menu), and select the folders you want to backup, and those you want to ignore. I have personally only tried backing up to Amazon S3 from these services though. In the same way, you may also use gcs for Google Cloud Storage, openstack for Openstack Swift, and rackspace for Rackspace Cloud Files services. This can be done using Dconf Editor, by navigating to /org/gnome/deja-dup and changing the backend key to s3. Few features of S3 are provided with a GUI. With Deja Dup installed but closed, it's time to change an option that's only available with Dconf, which unhides the Amazon S3 option from the Deja Dup storage location options. If you don't already have Deja Dup installed (it's installed by default on quite a few GNOME Linux distributions), you should be able to find it in the repositories.
This article explains how to set up Deja Dup backup tool to take Linux desktop backups to Amazon S3. command-line editing on Bash if I work on an EC2 in the same region with the target S3 bucket. Related: Securely And Efficiently Backup Data On Linux Or macOS With Vorta (BorgBackup GUI) Interactive S3 client for Linux console worrying about data transfer fee if I do ad-hoc analysis of data stored in S3 on my MacBook just because I can use a nice GUI client for S3 like in choosing which file to look into, and. Unofficially though, Deja Dup also supports Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Openstack Swift, and Rackspace Cloud Files services.īackup to these cloud services has been marked as deprecated in Deja Dup, but there are no plans to drop support for them right now, and "for the foreseeable future, they are staying". The application, which integrates tightly with the GNOME desktop, officially supports Google Drive and Nextcloud as cloud backup storage locations. At least up to version 40, it still works though (so it works on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, but not on Ubuntu 20.10). We get confirmation again that the bucket was created successfully: makebucket: linux-is-awesome. We can create buckets in any AWS region by simply adding a value for the region parameter to our base mb command: aws s3 mb s3://linux-is-awesome -region eu-central-1. ] Backing up to Amazon S3 is no longer available with Deja Dup 42. Creating an S3 Bucket in a Specific Region.