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?

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