Back In Time

When is restore complete?

Asked by Matthew Petty

I had to return my laptop to the manufacturer (System76) for repair. It had Ubuntu 12.04 on it, and I used Back In Time to back up my home folder. When the laptop came back, it had a fresh install of 12.10. I installed Back In Time, and went to the last snapshot, selected the top folder (to restore the whole thing) and clicked restore.
The dialog box appeared, listing files it was restoring. The problem is that I can't tell when it will be finished. It's been running all day, while I was at work. The Close button at the bottom is grayed out. The file list keeps jumping to the top, so I can't see what the latest message is. When do I know the restore is complete? Will it say "Finished!" and make the close button available?
The scrollbars in the restoring file list keep twitching like there is some activity.
The snapshot is stored on an external USB drive, and it's 32GB.

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Germar (germar) said : 		#1

This is a known bug in BackInTime. The log gets rewritten every time a new line is added. As more lines are added as longer python need to process the log. I've recently committed a patch that fix this. A restore of ~400 files which needed ~40sec before is done in 2sec with this patch.

The patch is not released jet. So you'll have to build and install manually from trunk.
Type in terminal:
cd ~
sudo apt-get install bzr gettext fakeroot
bzr branch lp:backintime -r 826
cd backintime
fakeroot ./makedeb.sh
sudo dpkg -i backintime-common-1.0.17_all.deb backintime-gnome-1.0.17_all.deb backintime-notify-1.0.17_all.deb
sudo apt-get install -f

But before installing this, you'll have to kill the running process. Type 'ps ax' and search for backintime and rsync processes. Kill them all by typing 'kill <pid>' where <pid> is the first number of 'ps ax' output. If they don't stop try 'kill -9 <pid>'. Try to avoid a restart because your laptop might not start again because of the partial restore.
General a fresh new installation of 12.04 first and than restore on this would be even better. Because now you are mixing different versions.

Regards,
Germar

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sojusnik (sojusnik) said : 		#2

Hi Germar,

I'm also experiencing this bug and would like to know, when there will be an updated release of BiT, since I have a huge amount of data to restore and currently it takes ages...

Best!

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Germar (germar) said : 		#3

Hi sojusnik,

Dan will try to make a maintenance release this weekend. But he is very busy at the moment. So it can take a little longer.

Regards,
Germar

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sojusnik (sojusnik) said : 		#4

Hi Germar,

Thanks for replying! I'm glad, that this issue will be resolved soon.

Best!

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Gotit (sca957) said : 		#5

Germar - I just installed this version as noted above but it doesn't seem to have the fix for the problem. I restored my backed up home directory to a new system and the side bar continues to flutter and the "Close" button remains gray. After 1/2 hour of no network activity I assumed the restore was complete and closed BIT. This was on a Ubuntu 12.04 systems and BIT version 1.0.17.

However, I do see the SSHFS functionality but didn't try it, is it ready or still a work in progress?

Keep up the good work!!

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Germar (germar) said : 		#6

Hi Gotit,
Version 1.0.17 is the old version. Please install the new version 1.0.20 from BIT repositiory by typing:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bit-team/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Regards,
Germar

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Richard Clayton (richard-rideandclimb) said : 		#7

I can confirm this fix works.

Takes away the guesswork of the folder properties tab!

Thanks.

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