Oh my God you killed my savegame. Almost the only thing I did not have in the cloud is gone, because deja-dup doesn't back up Steam and it doesn't tell me about it! This fix is no fix. It's a bug. This kills savegames of hardcoregamers, who can potentially select to not backup Steam but only the savegames and kills the savegames of normal people who just want to play really small point and clicks like me. This angers me.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to deja-dup in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1083237 Title: Ignore Steam files by default Status in Déjà Dup: Fix Released Status in deja-dup package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in deja-dup source package in Precise: Fix Released Status in deja-dup source package in Quantal: Fix Released Bug description: [Impact] Steam is coming to Ubuntu (already in beta). Steam games are enormous, synchronized, and off-site. No need to back them up. Once users start playing Steam games, a user that enabled backups with Deja Dup's default settings will find that all of a sudden, many gigs of data are being backed up. Now, obviously this is a bit of a whack-a-mole problem. Many apps like Steam don't properly follow the XDG basedir spec and put cached data in ~/.cache so that Deja Dup and similar apps will ignore them. And we don't want to SRU a fix for every single non-compliant app. But Steam is a big one. It's both very popular and its data is very very large. I think it's worth an exception to avoid the pain and bug reports that will come when many people suddenly add multiple gigs of useless data to their backups. [Workaround] A user can simply add ~/Steam to the backup ignore list. But every single user that uses Steam will want to do that. It's a big burden to ask of each user individually. [Test Case] Try backing up your home directory with Steam installed. Notice that it will include ~/Steam. With this patch (from upstream), it will ignore ~/Steam instead. [Regression Potential] It's a very simple fix. I think regression potential is exceedingly tiny. [Fix Details] We add ~/.steam/root to the hidden default ignore list. ~/.steam/root points at ~/Steam (which will also be ignored) unless the user has manually changed it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1083237/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
