Deja Dup Restore fails: "No backups to restore"

[nicolasdiogo]

Hello,

I posting here in case others come across this minor problem.

In my case, I backup the dejadup/deja-dup to back-up my user's home

when I tried to restore the back up onto a fresh install on the same machine I found the error

"No backups to restore"

the steps to replicate this error:
- complete a fresh installation of ubuntu
- plug a usb storage with the back-up from the previous installation
- try to restore the previous back-up
- give the directory of the previous back-up and click forward
- the Error is shown

the reason for this error seems to be the configuration of the 'Backup Tool/
the path to the location of the previous back-up *has* to be entered in the tab 'Storage Location'

then repeat the process for Restoring the back-up and everything works fine


I hope it saves others from having a 'big scare'


Regards,

[rbmorse]

Many thanks. This is useful information, but I'm wondering, should be reported as a bug? One ought to be able to restore from any valid backup fileset.

[nicolasdiogo]

Done!

https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1749984

[peredurabefrog]

I see the latest comment on the bug report is that (presumably) a dev couldn't reproduce the error on Ubuntu 16.04. I have it on Ubuntu 18.4, so it's still a live bug. And I'm very grateful to the OP. I thought my data was lost for ever.

[araruna]

Hello,

I posting here in case others come across this minor problem.

In my case, I backup the dejadup/deja-dup to back-up my user's home

when I tried to restore the back up onto a fresh install on the same machine I found the error

"No backups to restore"

the steps to replicate this error:
- complete a fresh installation of ubuntu
- plug a usb storage with the back-up from the previous installation
- try to restore the previous back-up
- give the directory of the previous back-up and click forward
- the Error is shown

the reason for this error seems to be the configuration of the 'Backup Tool/
the path to the location of the previous back-up *has* to be entered in the tab 'Storage Location'

then repeat the process for Restoring the back-up and everything works fine


I hope it saves others from having a 'big scare'


Regards,

Just to add a little more information. For me, in addition to entering the path in the 'Storage Location' tab, I also had to close and reopen the application in order to the changes to "commit". I don't really know why, but you can tell that you have to do this if you see a different path or storage point when you open the "restore" dialog.

[Karti]

Many thanks for this - Saved my life

Regards

Karti

[t-vassallo]

Saved my backup as well! Many thanks

[denn1s-r]

This really is an annoying little bug!!!

It took me a long time to find this topic, thank you very much!

[denn1s-r]

This really is an annoying little bug!!!

It took me a long time to find this topic, thank you very much!

I'm getting this now though...

Invalid data - SHA1 hash mismatch for file:
duplicity-full.20181226T212031Z.vol4.difftar.gz
Calculated hash: 3c96aadf1c412a565da07f4b18d78751e8156bd1
Manifest hash: bb3d25292c63a9110c83c525e003bc752f4eac86

[Punksolid]

Hi everyone

I have the same error but I cannot reproduce the solution.

Could someone please explain me what I'm doing wrong?

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its a fresh install of deja dup, the previous machine was a manjaro with KDE with the disk encrypted, the same that the actual machine.


Thank you