Re: [Duplicity-talk] Recovering to a different system

[edgar . soldin]

On 16.10.2018 00:15, asterslash via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> Hello!

hi Asterslash,

> I made backups with duplicity from a Fedora laptop onto a USB hard drive that 
> I would now like to recover to another system (to a NAS4Free NAS with 
> duplicity running on a macOS system).
> 
> However, from what I could tell, duplicity is not really prepared for a 
> recovery like this, on another system 

it has been done in the past and should work flawlessly

>and I was hoping you could give me some suggestions in order for me to recover 
>the files’ content. Some problems I’ve had were:
> 
> * Duplicity not being able to chowning file to root or another user that does 
> not exist in this system (it seems there’s no flag to ignore ownership) -- 
> from what I could tell wouldn’t actually affect me because I’m only 
> interested in the files content, but I’m not sure;

chowning is only possible if duplicity is run as root. if not it is tried and 
log that it couldn't be done but should go on restoring.

> * An OSError exception on `os.mkfifo` because the “Operation [is] not 
> supported” — this I imagine may be related to duplicity not being able to 
> create some type of file on my NAS that existed in the source;

probably because your trying to restore on a macOS . if you do not need that 
file the error could probably be ignored. 

> * Some FileNotFound exceptions, I believe, that I didn’t quite understand, 
> but at the time I wasn’t paying attention so I can’t really reason why this 
> could happen; I’ll probably deal with this later, since it’s not the problem 
> blocking the recovery.

now that's very vague. how about you provide a proper full console log output 
(via pastebin,dropbox ...) of your restore run and we work from there?

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