Trouble Performing a Restore of a Backup to New Computer
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Hello all.
Novice user here.
My old Dell notebook (with Trisquel installed) is giving me trouble, so I installed Trisquel on a used HP notebook (details below). Fully updated all packages. No encryption. OS works fine e.g. web-browsing.
I then tried to restore to it the folders from my old notebook system's backup HD, using the default "Restore" program from the menu.
Backup location: 1 TB volume (backup HD)
Folder: "Trisquel Backup"
Restore to Where? - 'Restore files to original location'.
Alas: when the restore was finished I received this message:
"Restore Finished. Could not restore the following files. Please make sure you are able to write to them."
Followed by a long list of files. Essentially all my files failed to restore.
I repeated the restore attempt. Re-installed Trisquel. Tried a different restore date.
Same result: no success.
Can anyone advise as to what might be going wrong?
Thank you.
Trisquel 64-bit
Gnome 3.8.4
HP Pavilion g6
Intel Pentium(R) CPU B949 @2.00GHzx x2
Graphics Intel Sandybridge mobile
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> Please make sure you are able to write to them.
It seems a permission issue to me. Try running the restore application with sudo from terminal.
You can try using rsync: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/rsync
Well, restore from terminal did not work. "Sudo deja-dup" brought up the Backup procedure, but when done I again got a list of the files that "failed to load". Which was all of them.
I then tried "Restore to specific folder". I selected the "Home" folder. It seemed to be working and when finished said: "All files restored". But the files were nowhere to be found.
Interestingly, the only choices I get for backup sources choices in the drop down menu in either case are the files that end in "Manifest" - represented by "paper" icon - none of the box icons seem available to select. Maybe I need to alter Permissions on the individual files? Here are the Permissions as they are:
Any help would be very welcome.
Thank you.
Zem
Legimet, rsync looks a bit above me, for now. But thank you.
I'm wondering if I will need to un-pack a backup file and copy the files I want out of it. Deja-dup users: is that possible?
Thank you.
Zem
I dug about a bit and found this solution to my problem:
" Troubleshooting
Permission Denied Errors
Some versions of Déjà Dup will not correctly restore files stored in a folder that you did not have write access to when you backed them up. After the restore completes, you will get an error screen listing each file that was not restored. You can still manually copy the files to where you’d like them to be by going to the temporary folder named in the error dialog and moving the files.
General Fallback
If for whatever reason, you have a problem after trying to restore with the “Restore files to original locations” option, try restoring again to a temporary directory and moving your files to where they belong."
- https://wiki.gnome.org/DejaDup/Help/Restore/Full
I ended up going with the 'fallback' and restoring a Home directory to a temp folder, on the new computer.
HELP!
Now...! I think I can remove the files in the existing Home directory folder, and replace them with the files of the restored Home directory folder standing by in the temp folder.
Is this correct?
Thank you !
- Zem
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> Now...! I think I can remove the files in the existing Home directory folder, and replace them with the files of the restored Home directory folder standing by in the temp folder.
Is this correct?
It would seem so. If it is a new installation and you have no important data there, then yes, purge your /home/John and then move the /home/John from the temp folder into /home
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