Re: [Duplicity-talk] backup recovery failed

[edgar . soldin]

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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