Pika Backup 0.5 Tracking
Coordinating the Upcoming Release
Known External Issues
- Spinners stop spinning after a while GNOME/gtk#4426 (closed)
- Metered status for connections can be outdated flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal#658
- Folders that are not readable, can't be excluded from backup GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome#26
- Systems installing Pika for the first time via Flatpak have to restart before being able to start the app flatpak#4849
Mounting archives does not work https://github.com/libfuse/pyfuse3/pull/56#issuecomment-1260154696
Instructions for Beta Testing
You should create a copy of your configuration first. Also, while I use the current beta version for my backups myself, no guarantees for anything. (Pika comes without any warranties anyways.)
$ cp -a ~/.var/app/org.gnome.World.PikaBackup/config/pika-backup ~/pika-backup-config
The beta version can be installed in parallel to the stable version
$ flatpak install --user https://flathub.org/beta-repo/appstream/org.gnome.World.PikaBackup.flatpakref
You can start a specific version via the command line
$ flatpak run org.gnome.World.PikaBackup//stable
$ flatpak run org.gnome.World.PikaBackup//beta
or set which version is used when started via the desktop
$ flatpak make-current --user org.gnome.World.PikaBackup stable
$ flatpak make-current --user org.gnome.World.PikaBackup beta
Edited by Sophie Herold