Backup on filesystem mount no longer working

[bovender]

Hi,

the backup schedule option "When drive get[s] connected (udev)" no longer works for me.

The udev rule seems to be ok; after issuing sudo udevadm control -l debug I get this in the syslog when connecting the drive:

systemd-udevd[18966]: Process '/bin/su - 'daniel' -c '/usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/ionice -c2 -n7 /usr/bin/backintime --profile-id 2 backup-job >/dev/null 2>&1'' succeeded.

But nothing happens, the backup is not triggered.

When I paste the command in the terminal, leaving out the redirection:

/bin/su - 'daniel' -c '/usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/ionice -c2 -n7 /usr/bin/backintime --profile-id 2 backup-job'

I get this output:

Back In Time
Version: 1.1.12.a

Back In Time comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `backintime --license' for details.

INFO: Lock
INFO: Inhibit Suspend started. Reason: take snapshot
INFO: Take a new snapshot. Profile: 2 Complete
INFO: Call rsync to take the snapshot
INFO: [qt4systrayicon] begin loop

So it appears it's working ok.

I'm puzzled because it used to work automatically, too.

Evidently the udev rule triggers, and evidently the command, when copied and pasted into the terminal, works as well. Why does it no longer work automatically?

I'm on Ubuntu 16.10.

[Germar]

This is a known bug in earlier versions. Please update to 1.2.0~alpha from our testing PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bit-team/testing
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Duplicate of #605

[bovender]

Thanks for the swift response, and my apologies for having missed the duplicate. Works fine now.