cannot restore backup made with deja dup

Asked by leen.spaans58@gmail.com

I made backups (full and incremental) with the aid of Deja Dup.
My disk with the original data crashed and now i want to restore the data to a new drive with different drive name i installed on my computer.
Deja Dup is not able however to find the backup data.
When i use duplicity in the terminal it fails with the following text:

leen@ubuntu:~$ duplicity restore file://media/HDDRIVE2GO/"backup digitaal archief" home/leen/

GnuPG passphrase:

Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.

Last full backup date: none

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1262, in <module>

    with_tempdir(main)

  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1255, in with_tempdir

    fn()

  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1209, in main

    restore(col_stats)

  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 539, in restore

    restore_get_patched_rop_iter(col_stats)):

  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 561, in restore_get_patched_rop_iter

    backup_chain = col_stats.get_backup_chain_at_time(time)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line 934, in get_backup_chain_at_time

    raise CollectionsError("No backup chains found")

CollectionsError: No backup chains found

The backup files are on an external drive named Hddrive2GO in a directory named /backup digitaal achief.
This is the list of files in that directory

duplicity-full.20110411T142321Z.manifest.gpg

duplicity-full.20110411T142321Z.vol10.difftar.gpg

duplicity-full.20110411T142321Z.vol11.difftar.gpg

duplicity-full.20110411T142321Z.vol12.difftar.gpg

duplicity-full.20110411T142321Z.vol13.difftar.gpg

duplicity-full.20110411T142321Z.vol14.difftar.gpg

duplicity-full.20110411T142321Z.vol15.difftar.gpg

duplicity-full.20110411T142321Z.vol16.difftar.gpg

duplicity-full.20110411T142321Z.vol17.difftar.gpg

duplicity-full.20110411T142321Z.vol18.difftar.gpg

duplicity-full.20110411T142321Z.vol1.difftar.gpg

duplicity-full.20110411T142321Z.vol2.difftar.gpg

duplicity-full.20110411T142321Z.vol3.difftar.gpg

duplicity-full.20110411T142321Z.vol4.difftar.gpg

duplicity-full.20110411T142321Z.vol5.difftar.gpg

duplicity-full.20110411T142321Z.vol6.difftar.gpg

duplicity-full.20110411T142321Z.vol7.difftar.gpg

duplicity-full.20110411T142321Z.vol8.difftar.gpg

duplicity-full.20110411T142321Z.vol9.difftar.gpg

duplicity-full-signatures.20110411T142321Z.sigtar.gpg

duplicity-inc.20110411T142321Z.to.20110424T185245Z.manifest.gpg

duplicity-inc.20110411T142321Z.to.20110424T185245Z.vol1.difftar.gpg

duplicity-inc.20110411T142321Z.to.20110424T185245Z.vol2.difftar.gpg

duplicity-inc.20110411T142321Z.to.20110424T185245Z.vol3.difftar.gpg

duplicity-inc.20110411T142321Z.to.20110424T185245Z.vol4.difftar.gpg

duplicity-inc.20110411T142321Z.to.20110424T185245Z.vol5.difftar.gpg

duplicity-new-signatures.20110411T142321Z.to.20110424T185245Z.sigtar.gpg

list.txt

I use Ubuntu 11.04

How can i restore the files properly?
I also tried to list the files in the achives using "duplicity list-current-files" but i get the same answer:
leen@ubuntu:/media/HDDRIVE2GO/backup digitaal archief$ duplicity list-current-files file://media/"backup digitaal archief"
Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
Last full backup date: none
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1262, in <module>
    with_tempdir(main)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1255, in with_tempdir
    fn()
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1213, in main
    list_current(col_stats)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 514, in list_current
    sig_chain = col_stats.get_signature_chain_at_time(time)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line 959, in get_signature_chain_at_time
    raise CollectionsError("No signature chains found")
CollectionsError: No signature chains found

Thanks for your help

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Michael Terry (mterry) said :
#1

You're missing a slash. It should be file:///media not file://media.

Is there a problem with Deja Dup that you couldn't restore using it, or did you just try duplicity first?

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Best Michael Terry (mterry) said :
#2

Oops, sorry, missed your comment about Deja Dup.

I'd be curious in seeing the error Deja Dup gave you, but that's obviously secondary to you getting your data back.

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leen.spaans58@gmail.com (leen-spaans58) said :
#3

Michael thanks for your help. It solved my problem and i was able to restore my data. I used duplicity because i could not restore the data using Deja dup.
Deja dup was not able to find my backup files using the standard configuration file i used to make the backup. It just said that there was no valid backup. There was no date stamp from which you can choose to restore the data.
I tried to make a new configuration file but that did not do it either. So i got back to using duplicity from the command line.
The trick was indeed to use file:/// instead of file:// I think file:// is part of the urltype and /home/.... is part of the file pathname.
I missed that.

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fabio.hipolito (fabio-hipolito) said :
#4

Hello,

I think I have a similar problem. I've just updated (did a fresh install) to the latest version of Xubuntu, and now Deja-dup claims no backup is need.

What information should I provide?

Thanks and best regards.

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fabio.hipolito (fabio-hipolito) said :
#5

Hi,

last night I reboot the computer one last time and when I logged in again I was able to recover all my data using

nebulosa@strix:~$ duplicity --gio file:///media/owl-backup/strix-nebulosa /tmp/restore

Thanks and best regards.