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How to restore Backups without deja-dup?

Asked by mb

Hello,

how can I restore deja-dup backups without deja-dup? I made backups on a local area network ssh server and now have a folder full of 1MB .gz files. Trying to open them with file-roller returns a "permission denied". I think that it should be important to create simple .gz backup files to ensure the deja-dup-backups can be accessible for other operating systems and for the future.

regards

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Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#1

You can restore them with the command line tool duplicity, which may be more widely available than Deja Dup. But yes, there is room for improvement there.

Maybe a thumb drive image that you can backup from would be useful. A Deja Dup live CD. :)

Or possibly just ports to other operation systems, though Deja Dup is currently rather wedded to GNOME.

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