[Duplicity-talk] Duplicity error "found incomplete backup sets" - possibilities for restore??

[Thomas Schabetsberger]

Dear members of this mailing list,

I make backups of my servers with duplicity/ftplicity since a while, tested 
the backups, restored files, everything worked fine - until now.

Yesterday I lost an *very important* file and tried to restore it.

ftplicity said:

Warning, found incomplete backup sets, probably left from aborted session
Collection Status
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Connecting with backend: ftpBackend
Archive dir: None
No backup chains with active signatures found
Found 0 backup chains without signatures.
Also found 0 backup sets not part of any chain,
and 10 incomplete backup sets.
These may be deleted by running duplicity with the --cleanup option.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 373, in ?
if __name__ == "__main__": main()
File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 354, in main
if action == "restore": restore(col_stats)
File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 190, in restore
restore_get_patched_rop_iter(col_stats)):
File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 201, in restore_get_patched_rop_iter
backup_chain = col_stats.get_backup_chain_at_time(time)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line 598, in 
get_backup_chain_at_time
raise CollectionsError("No backup chains found")
duplicity.collections.CollectionsError: No backup chains found


After that I went the the backup ftp server. I found several thousands of 
files, all named something like duplicity-
full.2009-06-09T05:00:04+02:00.vol97.difftar.gpg

* My idea was now to try a manual restore.
* I made a copy of all of these files.
* I ran gpg filenname and decrypted successfully such a file to a .difftar
* But what is the next step? tar requests for a password!? 
* Are there other ways to search and restore my wanted file? Or do I have no 
chance?

Please, could anyone of you help me? 
Thank you very much in advance!!!

Tom




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