Deja Dup blocked from writing to USB drive
Deja Dup cannot write backups to a USB stick until sandbox permissions are changed by hand.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 27 March 2026 · last reported 31 March 2026
What's going wrong
Linux desktop users who back up with Deja Dup, which uses restic underneath, find that backups fail to start when the target is a USB stick, even though they can create folders on it by hand.
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