Back In Time

Restore back in Time not working

Asked by Mike

Hello,

I tried to set up BAT and came across a problem.
For testing I made a snapshot of a folder in /home. Then I deleted a subfolder. After this I tried to restore the snapshot. I get the following output. The deleted folder has NOT been restored.

[...]
chown /home/mw 1000 : 1000
chmod /home/mw 40755
chown /home 0 : 0 : FAILED
chgrp /home 0 : FAILED
chmod /home 40755 : FAILED

I'm not very experienced with Linux, so any help is appreciated.

This seems to be the same problem as here (https://answers.launchpad.net/backintime/+question/250609), but in their case the files got restored.

Thanks

Mike

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Germar (germar) said : 		#1

Hi Mike,

BIT was restoring file permissions (after restoring files). It failed for /home because your non-privileged user doesn't have write access to /home (only root has). But that's nothing to worry about because permissions of /home didn't change at all.

I can't tell why your folder has not been restored. Could you please post the whole restore log? You'll find it in /home/mw/.local/share/backintime/restore_.log (you need to show hidden files for this).

Regards,
Germar

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Mike (legolasundgimli) said : 		#2

Hi Germar,

thanks for your reply.

I tried it again and so far it looks, like i made a stupid mistake.
It seems like I have to click on the specific file or folder (highlight), that I want to restore.
I think I did not do this last time. So far it seems to work. I will try a backup of my whole /home now.
Thanks for your help.