Re: [Duplicity-talk] rebuild local index from remote backup?

[Kenneth Loafman]

Awesome, thanks! 

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:19 AM Morgan Read <address@hidden> wrote:

I can now post that having let deja-dup run (duplicity) it did a full
back-up and verify and reports that:
Backup Finished
Your files were successfully backed up and tested.

Thanks again!
M

On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 17:37, Morgan Read <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Thanks
> M
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> On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 14:57, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Sounds like a good plan.
> >
> > ...Ken
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 8:38 AM Morgan Read <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thank you Ken,
> >> That's heartening to know.
> >>
> >> If I can just clarify what has happened:
> >> 1) remote backup removed from remote location
> >> 2) local index and manifest not removed from local location re remote backup
> >> 3) duplicity cleaning up the local cache and reloading what it needs
> >> from the remote - that is, nothing in the remote so nothing needed in
> >> the local cache so local cache is eaten...!
> >> And, what will happen:
> >> a) remote backup returned to remote location
> >> b) local index and manifest eaten and empty
> >> c) duplicity will clean up the local cache (nothing to do) and reload
> >> what it needs from the remote location - that is, all things should be
> >> sweet in the rose garden once I've let duplicity do it's thing on the
> >> remote backup
> >>
> >> I will take a back up of the remote before pressing the go button, but
> >> I think from what you say everything is okay?
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Morgan
> >>
> >> On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 12:33, Kenneth Loafman via Duplicity-talk
> >> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi Morgan,
> >> >
> >> > Assuming your remote is intact, duplicity will clean up the cache and reload what it needs from the remote, so as far as I can tell, duplicity is doing what it should be doing.
> >> >
> >> > ...Thanks,
> >> > ...Ken
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 1:14 AM Morgan Read via Duplicity-talk <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hello List
> >> >>
> >> >> If you would like to miss out the background and jump straight to my
> >> >> question, it's the fifth paragraph down...
> >> >>
> >> >> I've recently moved my backup.  After following a few dead links to an
> >> >> elusive 'howto' I tracked it down at the web archive - so, for
> >> >> reference and others that follow, here's a live link:
> >> >> https://web.archive.org/web/20140306044937/http://blog.linux2go.dk/2011/01/20/moving-duplicity-and-hence-deja-dup-backups
> >> >>
> >> >> Following the above - about half way down the page - is the formula to
> >> >> calculate the hash for a folder name for any given location.  So, far
> >> >> so good.  I was using a different location uri (ssh to my home server)
> >> >> and couldn't bring myself to work out the translation between one uri
> >> >> form and another.
> >> >>
> >> >> I figured it would be more simply to have deja-dup do it for me - so,
> >> >> I moved all the files from my back-up location to a temp remote
> >> >> directory and all my files from the local directory named after the
> >> >> hash of the uri of the backup location to a temp local directory -
> >> >> just for safety.  Then had deja-dup do a back up to the new remote
> >> >> location.  All went well, remote directory created and local directory
> >> >> created named after a hash of the remote.  Now, all I had to do is
> >> >> replace the contents of my new directories with the contents of my
> >> >> remote directories.
> >> >>
> >> >> Unfortunately, it was too late in the evening by the time I got to
> >> >> that stage - and I forgot to move back my remote back-up to the new
> >> >> directory location.  So, running my first back up...  Yup, deja-dup/
> >> >> duplicity started to eat my local manifests and indexes that I'd just
> >> >> returned to my newly created local directory - because, of course, it
> >> >> no longer matched the empty remote location I was backing up to...
> >> >>
> >> >> So, my question, how do I/ can I rebuild my local directory to make
> >> >> useable my back up again?
> >> >>
> >> >> Many thanks for reading my story of wow!
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> >> >> Morgan Read
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