Re: [Duplicity-talk] Difficulties with restore: 'Could not restore the following files. Please make sure you are able to write to them.'

[edgar . soldin]

On 10.11.2021 20:20, andrew via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I hope you're keeping. I've run into a difficult with duplicity and I am at a 
> loss to understand the difficulty. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> I have been using Déjà Dup on Fedora 33 for weekly backups of my home 
> directory which includes a hidden Thunderbird directory. I installed Fedora 
> 35 and tried using restore (Backups 42.8). While this has successfully 
> restored most of the files, it hasn't been successful with some Thunderbird 
> files - but not all of them!
>
> For example:
>
> /home/awood/Documents/myDocuments/Thunderbird-gnapcorg10nov2021/pop.gn.apc.org/Mail/Local
>  Folders/Inbox
> /home/awood/Documents/myDocuments/Thunderbird-gnapcorg10nov2021/pop.gn.apc.org/Mail/Local
>  Folders/Inbox.msf
> /home/awood/Documents/myDocuments/Thunderbird-gnapcorg10nov2021/pop.gn.apc.org/Mail/Local
>  Folders/Sent
> /home/awood/Documents/myDocuments/Thunderbird-gnapcorg10nov2021/pop.gn.apc.org/Mail/Local
>  Folders/Sent.msf
> /home/awood/Documents/myDocuments/Thunderbird-gnapcorg10nov2021/pop.gn.apc.org/Mail/Local
>  Folders/Trash
> /home/awood/Documents/myDocuments/Thunderbird-gnapcorg10nov2021/pop.gn.apc.org/Mail/Local
>  Folders/Trash.msf
>
> At the end of the restore then these files are listed along with 'Could not 
> restore the following files. Please make sure you are able to write to them.'
>
> I can't think of any reason why they couldn't be written - there's definitely 
> space on the disk. I also tried to restore the back-up on Ubuntu and I had 
> the same message.
>
> Any suggestions? Thank-you.

hey Andrew,

we need more details. could you please run duplicity with maximum verbosity 
'-v9' and put the full command line output to pastebin or the like and post the 
link here? obfuscate information you deem private in it beforehand!

..regards ede/duply.net