Déjà Dup

Windows symlink

Asked by JHL

Hi!

This is a great software. Recently I made a backup of my PC that was dual boot to Linux(Fedora) and Windows Vista. The problem that I have is that I made a backub from Linux of my mounted windows system. I selected to make a backup of Document Settings/MYUSERNAME folder.

After the backup I've formatted my PC with Linux only an restored eve3rything in a specifi folder... but here comes my nightmare... the restore has everything that I had in linux and some files of Widows except for Docuemnt and Settings... it came as SYMLINK!!!

Even taht the backup size counted everyything... so I guess that the files are there in somewhere on the backup files but the restores didn't know how to restore them ... any help please!!!

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Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#1

In Vista, apparently Documents and Settings started being implemented as a symlink to C:\Users for backwards compatibility. Check there?

Did you specify the whole C:\ drive or just the specific folder user folder? Which version of Deja Dup?

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JHL (hugoloza) said : 		#2

The bad thing is that I've selected just /Document Settings/mysusernamefolder to be backed up. So there is no other folder restored besides Document Settings (as symlink)
I'm using Déjà Dup 14.2

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Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#3

I'm so sorry, but it looks like you've rediscovered an older (thought-fixed) bug in Deja Dup. :(

When you select a folder for inclusion with symlinks in its path, only the symlink gets backed up. I have re-opened bug 486662 to deal with this.

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JHL (hugoloza) said : 		#4

ohhh. bad news....

Is there any way to explore over the compressed files? before the restoration. This is because I suspect that the files are there.. but the restoration script is somehow not following the symlink (based on the size of the files... seems that is there)

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Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#5

OK, let's say you're backup files are in /media/backup. Open a terminal and type:

duplicity list-current-files file:///media/backup

(if you didn't use encryption, pass --no-encryption)

To restore the backup using duplicity, type the following (again, pass --no-encryption if needed):

mkdir /tmp/backup
duplicity restore file:///media/backup /tmp/backup

I hope this helps!

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