From: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
To: Discussion of the backup program duplicity <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 5:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Duplicity-talk] backup recovery failed
you are missing crucial files for duplicity to work with the volumes. so regarding using duplicity you are out of luck.
did you copy your backup repository and missed some files in the process?
did the one backup i see finish successfully at all?
regarding on the importance of your missing data you could try
https://live.gnome.org/DejaDup/Help/Restore/WorstCase#Restoring_by_Hand..ede/duply.net
On 15.02.2013 23:06, Jul Rid wrote:
> Thanks for the fast reply!!
> I attached the listing
> -Jul
>
>
>
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> *Sent:* Friday, February 15, 2013 3:49 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Duplicity-talk] backup recovery failed
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> On 15.02.2013 06:07, Jul Rid wrote:
> > Hello everyone.
> > I am using Duplicity 0.6.18 with Ubuntu 12.04.
> > The original home directory is gone and now I am trying to recover
my backup files.
> >
> > On an external hard
drive, I have about 150 GB of files that look like this:
> > duplicity-full.20121206T000130Z.vol1003.difftar.gz
> > They are numbered as follows over a period of three days: Dec 5 goes from vol1 to vol1880, Dec 6 goes from 2679 to 1881, Dec 10 goes from 2680-2972. Which matches the dates on which I did the last three backups (before my system died).
> > There is no sigtar file.
> >
> > This is what I did and got:
> >
> > address@hidden:/media/Iomega_HDD$ man duplicity
> > address@hidden:/media/Iomega_HDD$ duplicity restore --gio --no-encryption file:///media/Iomega_HDD/ /home/newjuch/
> > Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
> > Warning, found incomplete backup sets, probably
left from aborted session
> > Last full backup date: none
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1411, in <module>
> > with_tempdir(main)
> > File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1404, in with_tempdir
> > fn()
> > File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1338, in main
> > restore(col_stats)
> > File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 629, in restore
> > restore_get_patched_rop_iter(col_stats)):
> > File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 651, in restore_get_patched_rop_iter
> > backup_chain = col_stats.get_backup_chain_at_time(time)
> > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line 947, in
get_backup_chain_at_time
> > raise CollectionsError("No backup chains found")
> > CollectionsError: No backup chains found
> >
> > What can I do to get my data back? Can anyone help me?
> >
> > Thanks a million in advance!
> > -Jul
> >
> >
>
> first off.. please do a file listing of file:///media/Iomega_HDD/, zip it and post it here. this way we can see what is there.
>
> as you probably guess already. dulicity not finding any backup chain is not a good sign.
>
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