This can be done using Dconf Editor, by navigating to /org/gnome/deja-dup and changing the backend key to s3. 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. Related: Securely And Efficiently Backup Data On Linux Or macOS With Vorta (BorgBackup GUI) 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). ] Backing up to Amazon S3 is no longer available with Deja Dup 42.

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