[Discuss] [re-sent] Re: Cannot restore from Backintime (Ubuntu)

[Patrick]

These messages never came back to me from the list.  CC-ing you
[Murray] this time around.  They're two separate emails, btw, not
two copies of the same email.

On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:00:06 -0800
Murray Strome wrote:

> The main HD on my wife's computer failed.  I had to reinstall Ubuntu on a new drive.  I had been using Backintime (root) for backing up the key files in /etc and /home on a separate hard drive.
> 
> In the new installation, I installed Backintime, but when I try to run it to restore the files it says that it cannot find any snapshots.  I did find a suggestion to copy the config file from the most recent snapshot to ~/.config/backintime/ which I did.  This did not help.

Just a guess...  Since you ran it as root, did you try looking
in root's home directory [/root]?  It might have saved a more
relevant configuration there.  Synaptic does that.

> Any suggestions as to how either get Backintime to find the snapshots and restore the files, or alternatively to use something else to restore them?  I believe that BIT actually uses rsync and other things behind the scenes but I don't know how the files are saved, and if they are compressed or what.

Googling...

> 
> I did try to just copy one of the folders from a snapshot to my home directory, but that didn't work (it wouldn't copy it).
> 
> Thanks for any assistance.

Not sure if I'm actually helping yet.  Be right back.


> 
> Murray

Patrick.
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