Backup before shutdown?

Question

Deja Dup runs in the morning & hogs my CPU. Is there a way to add a new button to the Ubuntu "power off" menu that will "backup then shut down" in addition to the 'shut down' buttons?

Answer 1

You could create your own little script that runs the backup program, then shuts the computer down. If you then create a .desktop launcher for it and place that in ~/.local/share/applications, then an icon for that script will appear in your applications overview. You could then start the backup and shut down from the applications overview.