Déjà Dup allows me to choose whether to keep backups for six months, a year, or forever.
How do I choose to keep backups for less than six months, say, three months, or even more?
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Déjà Dup allows me to choose whether to keep backups for six months, a year, or forever.
How do I choose to keep backups for less than six months, say, three months, or even more?
Best Answer
You need to modify the Dconf setting at path
/org/gnome/deja-dup/
, schemaorg.gnome.DejaDup
, key namedelete-after
. It's set to the number of days to keep backup files on backup location.For example, to set it to 60 days from the command line, run:
You can also do this from
dconf-editor
:The Backup Déjà Dup utility reacts well to this change, adding it as an option: