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SSH can't find snapshot folder

Asked by Don Radick

Hi folks -

I installed BIT 1.0.34 on Xubuntu 13.10 - after a bit of fiddling with ssh and keys, I am able to SSH
to my NAS box without a password. I configured BIT to backup via SSH to <server ip> /home/myuserid/
but it keeps giving an error "can't find snapshot folder"

Obvious questions:

I am executing BIT as my userid on my computer.
The userid on my computer and the remote NAS is the same.
The directory /home/mysuserid/ exists on the NAS, and I have privs.

Surprising:
BIT was able to access my home dir on the NAS, and created the initial backup directory structure of:
/home/myuserid/backintime/<my computer name>/myuserid/1 (but no snapshot files)

Any ideas? I feel that if I can just get BIT to create the initial snapshot, I should be good to go.

Thanks
don

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Germar (germar) said : 		#1

Hi Don,

please run 'backintime-gnome' in Terminal and post the whole output in here.

Regards,
Germar

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Don Radick (joetekubi-s) said : 		#2

Thanks so much for the response!

I found that even launching BIT from the command-line, it would error out as
it tried to find an old snapshot on a usb disk.

I ended up doing a "apt-get purge back*" and then reinstalling.

It is doing the first snap now, but appears to be creating the files on the NAS
as I need it to.

Another satisfied BIT user!

don