Mint backup tool hangs

[Jowin]

Whenever I try to backup the software with mint backup tool It stops working and hangs in the middle What to do??

[xenopeek]

Open a terminal, go to the folder you are trying to backup (if you want your entire home folder, you are already there). Then run this command to search for named pipes:

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find . -type p

Does it return any files? mintBackup can not deal with named pipes, see this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/846262

Workaround: Exclude all the files found with above command from your backup.

[Jowin]

It doesnt return any output... Is there any other problem that could be happening??

[xenopeek]

You can check other bugs on mintBackup here.

[blue_bullet]

Open a terminal, go to the folder you are trying to backup (if you want your entire home folder, you are already there). Then run this command to search for named pipes:

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find . -type p

Does it return any files? mintBackup can not deal with named pipes, see this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/846262

Workaround: Exclude all the files found with above command from your backup.

This is helpful. I did this to find the offending files. There is still a problem though.
Named pipes files I found are in .lastpass which is a hidden directory. I do not see a way to make the mintbackup gui show the hidden directories so I can exclude them. Same thing with exclude files option-hidden directories are not shown in the gui.

[Konstigt]

Just click exclude directories, right click in the file area and choose "Show Hidden Files"

[blue_bullet]

Just click exclude directories, right click in the file area and choose "Show Hidden Files"

Thank you, Konstigt. That worked fine just excluding the .lastpass directory. I guess I just missed that setting the first time. Backup worked just fine.