Trouble shooting Kbackup

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The configuration for the included Kup backup for Neon seem very straightforward. I don’t see many references to issues in the forums so I assume that my challenge is due to pilot error. I am backing up to a mounted USB drive with several TB of space and backup seems to connect. However, there is a red badge on the status display.

I would sincerely appreciate any suggestions regarding possible cause.

I am running the following:
Operating System: KDE neon 5.27
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.104.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 5.19.0-38-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4790T CPU @ 2.70GHz
Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4600
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: 410-019
System Version: 1.00

There is lots of space on the destination identified by Kbackup. I am at a loss. I even did a fresh bare metal install and have the same issue. GPT suggested the following but everything seems to check out.

[The red badge on the status display of Kup backup for Neon indicates that there is an error with your backup. [The error could be due to various reasons such as insufficient space on your USB drive, incorrect configuration settings, or a bug in Kup] [You can try checking if you have enough space on your USB drive and if your configuration settings are correct]. [If that doesn’t work, you can try reinstalling Kup or reporting a bug]

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Did you find a solution to your problem?

I just tried setting up a new backup plan and I left the name of the “Destination Folder” at its default value, namely “Backups” and the plan would not run and didn’t give any indication why. It took me a while to realise I had to create the named backup folder on the destination device.

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I’d certainly recommend reporting this as a bug, software should help users accomplish tasks as efficiently as possible. In this case, check if the folder exists and if not, create it.

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Bug 468269

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Thanks so much for the solution Paul. :grinning: I can’t believe that I was stymied by something so simple. Also, thanks for reporting the bug. It really did not anticipate that the default directory needed to be created in advance.