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

[Kenneth Loafman]

Thomas,

I'm guessing from the traceback that you have a fairly old version of
duplicity.  The backup is most likely good, you just need to do an
upgrade to the newest stable version, 0.5.19, which you can download at
https://launchpad.net/duplicity/stable/0.5.19.  Recovery may not be
possible if you have modified the remote backup in any way.

Manual restoration is not normally possible due to the way incremental
changes are stored, however, the original may be restored if needed.
Let's try the updated version first.

...Thanks,
...Ken

Thomas Schabetsberger wrote:
> 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
> -----------------
> 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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