I have a Box.net account and it's feeling neglected so I decided to place my backups there since it's bigger than my Ubuntu One storage.
When I try to set this up I get an error though.
I set it up like this:
- Backup location: WebDAV
- Server:
- Use https (yes)
- Port 443
- Folder: /Deja/ Username: [email address]
These are the same details used to add my box account as a server in nautilus (which worked) but this says "HTTP Error: Cannot resolve hostname ()" when I try to run a backup.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
James
4 Answers
I figured it out!
Under your storage tab...
Backup Location - WebDAV
Server -
Check the HTTPS box
Port - 443
Folder - /dav/optionalsubdirectory
Username - optional
As a workaround you can use davfs2:
sudo apt-get install davfs2
Create a folder where you would like to mount the box.net "drive":
sudo mkdir /media/box.net
Test-mount box.net WebDAV
sudo mount -t davfs /media/box.net
Make it permanent:
sudo su
echo “ username password” >> /etc/davfs2/secrets`(username and password of course being your username/email-address and password respectively) NB: Yes, this is your password in plain text but it's visible only to sudoers.
Mount it on every start:
sudo su
gedit /etc/davfs2/davfs2.confchange the dav_group davfs2 line to dav_group users
sudo gedit /etc/fstab
and insert
/media/box.net davfs rw,user,noauto 0 0
at the end. noauto is important. Otherwise the boot will hang.
Note that there are several other ways of accomplishing this, for example adding your user to the davfs2 group, having a secrets file just for the user in ~/.davfs2/secrets etc. but this one should work.
All in all I've found the box.net WebDAV support to be flaky at times.
6As server you can't add URLs like in a browser. You just have to edit Server to "" without /dav.
Sorry for the wrong answer. Here the answer
This is a bug in DejaDup and was submitted here:
You can follow this bug to receive updates and it seems not to work at the moment.
instead of "noauto" try "_netdev"
_netdev The filesystem resides on a device that requires network access (used to prevent the system from attempting to mount these filesystems until the network has been enabled on the system).
