Deja Dup`s "Back Up Now" button is not highlighted

Shorter version

Ctrl+Alt+t to open a terminal

pkill deja-dup

Re-run the "Backups" program and try again.

In my case, there was no backup running but deja-dup had a couple of things running.

I did a ps -eaf | grep dup and killed the pids. Then I started DejaDup from the menu and the button was active.

That button is grayed out when a backup (or restore) is already in progress. Maybe one was running in the background?

Is the button enabled now?

ps aux | grep deja
kill <pid of "deja-dup --backup --auto">

Immediately the backup button becomes active.

This should be reported as a bug as the frontend should either have a button to terminate running backups or automatically reconcile concurrent backups.

My 'back up now' button was disabled. In my case the problem was that when I opened the Deja Dup config, the 'storage' option was set to 'Ubuntu One', and it opened another window for logging into that.

I changed the storage setting to a local drive, but it took me a while to realise I had to cancel the Ubuntu One login before Deja Dup would allow me to run a backup.