Re: [Duplicity-talk] Direct backup of LVM snapshot partitions?

[edgar . soldin]

there are things between heaven & earth ;) that leave me astonished every time
can i ask the "question of sense"? the reason for trying it manually?

what exactly is your error when you try to restore with duplicity?
as far as i recall the manifest and the sigtars are not necessary for a proper 
restore. they merily used for verifying or listing without downloading every 
volume.
@mt: correct?

so do as suggested on the website. be aware: to restore incrementals you 
obviously need use rdiff. but it's documented quite well, so don't be afraid.

but then again.. what went wrong in duplicity that you switched to manual 
restore in the first place?

 .. ede

On 13.12.2012 15:38, Michael Terry wrote:
> https://live.gnome.org/DejaDup/Help/Restore/WorstCase#Restoring_by_Hand
> -mt
> 
> 
> On 13 December 2012 09:25, T. Prost <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Am Mittwoch, den 12.12.2012, 17:16 +0100 schrieb address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>:
> 
>     > >>>
>     > >>> ... forgot to mention it was an FAT volume :-|
>     > >>>
>     > >>> And as far as I can see, I see success in recovering the SNAPSHOT
>     > >>> directory, but reassembling the files in the multivol seems to 
> produce
>     > >>> anything but the original files :-(
>     > >>>
>     > >>> Sorry ...
>     > >>>
>     > >>
>     > >> you're aware the discussion started with LVM snapshots, right?
>     > >>
>     > >> no clue what you mean by "recovering the SNAPSHOT directory" or 
> "reassembling the files in the multivol".
>     > >
>     > > Sorry, I became attentive to the discussion because of the idea, 
> someone
>     > > "might want to back up a Windows partition" - what I had done earlier
>     > > and now running into problems with the recovery :-(
>     > >
>     > > But you're right. I expressed that in a really bad manner :-(
>     > >
>     > > The recovery created two directories: multivol_snapshot and snapshot,
>     > > where I can read the files in "snapshot" but can't reassemble those in
>     > > the multivol.
>     > >
>     >
>     > there is no recovery in duplicity.. what recovery do you mean? ..ede
> 
>     Sorry again for the bad explication.
>     As metadata (two sort of files if I remember right, one of them a
>     signature file, the other ?) gone missing, I couldn't do it with
>     duplicity restore (therefore I was searching for another terminus).
> 
>     According to what Michael Terry wrote (sadly can't remember where I
>     found it :-() I manually unpacked all the gziped data with
>     for t in *.sigtar.gz; do tar xfz $t; done
>     what created the two different directories.
> 
>     Further following Michael's instructions, in the snapshot directories,
>     there already are the original files now, but in the multivol
>     directories I had to concatenate the unpacked files to recover the
>     original file - but that's where I'm afraid, something went wrong by
>     mixing up windows and linux.
>     I'm now wondering, where a possible error could have slipped in ?
> 
>